Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Asterolasia asteriscophora subsp. asteriscophora

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Imange Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

 Lemon Starbush

Family

Rutaceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, shrubland, heath, and rocky areas. Kosciuszko National Park and the tablelands east of Kosciuszko National Park. Ranges along the Victorian border. Recent records between Gundaroo and Gunning.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m high. Young branches grey to brown stellate-hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 0.3–3.5 cm long, 2–15 mm wide, tips blunt to notched, upper surface hairless and shining, or rough with scattered stellate hairs, lower surface brownish or whitish hairy. Flowers yellow, brown stellate-hairy outside, with 5 petals each 4–9 mm long. Flowers in 1–8 flowered clusterss. Flowering: spring.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Asterolasia~asteriscophora (accessed 4 January, 2021)