Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Astrotricha floccosa
Common name
None
Family
Araliaceae
Where found
Dry forest and woodland on sandstone. Ranges north of Mittagong and inland from Wollongong. Sydney area.
Notes
Shrub to 4 m high. Branchlets stellate hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves alternating up the stems, 7.5–27 cm long, usually 20–50 mm wide, upper surface smooth, light green, dull; lower surface covered with soft woolly hairs which are entangled and tend to rub off, veins evident in relief through the hairs, margins entire; tips pointed. Flowers small, with 5 petals, white to cream or pale green. Petals erect to spreading. Inflorescence up to 70 cm long, usually stellate hairy throughout (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Flowering: Sept.–Dec.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Astrotricha~floccosa (accessed 4 January, 2021)
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