Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Aneilema acuminatum

Flower. Australian Plant Image Index, Australian Tropical Rainforest key

Flowering stem. Photographer Don Wood, near Nowra

Flowering stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Eungella National Park, west of Mackay

Common name

None

Family

Commelinaceae

Where found

Forest. Coast and ranges north from the Nowra district.

Notes

Perennial herb to about 0.4 m high. Stems fleshy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3–10 cm long, 10–25 mm wide, with a sheath at the base, upper surface rough with minute projections. Flowers white, with 3 'petals' each 4–8 mm long. Usually 3 stamens producing pollen and 2-3 staminodes not producing pollen. Filaments of the stamens not bearded. Flowers in branched clusters 8–15 cm long, not enclosed in a spathe-like bract. Flowering: August–January. Seed cases dry, green to brown. 

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Aneilema~acuminatum (accessed 30 January, 2021)