Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Alania endlicheri
Common name
None
Family
Boryaceae
Where found
Gullies on moist rocks, moist sandstone rock faces in dry forest, and cliff-line shrub communities. Ranges north from Lake Burragorang west of Camden. Occasionally Sydney and north from Sydney.
Notes
Rhizomatous perennial herb, with a woody base, rooting at the nodes. Flowering stems threadlike, to about 0.30 m high. Leaves crowded along the stems, 2–12 cm long, about 0.5 mm wide, margins with minute teeth, tips pointed. Expanded leaf bases persistent, brown. Flowers cream to white, with 6 dry and membranous 'petals' each 2–3 mm long, persistent but not spirally twisted after flowering. Flowers in a cluster, usually 20–30-flowered. Flowering: summer.
Was Alania endlicheri.
PlantNET description: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Alania~cunninghamii (accessed 9 January, 2021)
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