Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Symphionema montanum

Flowering stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

None

Family

Proteaceae

Where found

Wet or dry situations in dry forest and heath. Mainly Blue Mountains and north from there. Occasionally coastal north from the Wollongong district. Rarely elsewhere.

Notes

Shrub usually to 0.8 m high. Stems more or less hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2–5 cm long, usually deeply divided into 3–9 segments, sometimes entire. Segments of divided leaves 2–20 mm long, 2–4 mm wide, flat, hairless, midvein distinct. Flowers pale yellow, 4–5 mm long, with 4 spreading 'petals'. Flowers in narrow elongated clusters 2-6 cm long. Flowering: Oct.-Dec.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Symphionema~montanum (accessed 9 February, 2021)