Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Astrotricha asperifolia
Common name
None
Family
Araliaceae
Where found
Forest. Ranges between Kangaroo Valley and Budawang National Park, and coastal areas to the east.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high. Branchlets densely hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 5–13.5 cm long, 2.1–4.8 mm wide, upper surface rough, usually with both small granules and larger (to 0.2 mm high) almost conical rough points (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see) the latter often linked by short wandering ridges; lower surface densely hairy, margins curved down, tips blunt to somewhat pointed. Flowers small, with 5 petals, cream to very pale green. Petals not turned back. Flowers can be green and cream in the same cluster. Flowers in clusters 6–30 cm long. Flowers Spring to Summer.
PlantNET description): https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Astrotricha~asperifolia (accessed 15 April 2021)
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