Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acrophyllum australe
Common name
None
Family
Cunoniaceae
Where found
Forest, talus slopes, damp crevices, and gullies, usually near waterfalls. Blue Mountains and Wollemi National Parks.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high. Hairless. Leaves opposite each other or in whorls of 3-4, mostly 3–10 cm long, 10–45 mm wide, strongly veined, margins toothed, upper surface green and hairless, lower surface more or less glaucous, often with a reddish tinge and sparsely hairy. Flowers white tinged pink, with 5 petals each 3–4 mm long. Flowers in more or less stalkless heads. Flowers November-December.
Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10031 (accessed 3 January, 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acrophyllum~australe (accessed 3 January, 2021)
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