Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Astrotricha linearis
Common name
Narrow-leaved starhair
Family
Araliaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland. and heath. Coast, ranges and Western Slopes north of Lake Conjola. Coast and ranges south from Deua National Park. Kosciuszko National Park.
Astrotricha linearis subsp. Pine Mountain (A.R.Bean 9452) Vic. Herbarium probably occurs in NSW. In Victoria, it occurs close to the NSW border along the upper reaches of the Murray River from east of Albury to south of Biggara.
Notes
Shrub to 1.5 m high. Branchlets stellate hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), felted, occasionally almost hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2–7.1 cm long, 1–2 mm wide. upper surface variably rough, the projections conspicuous and rounded conical and/or granulate and inconspicuous, but detectable with a hand lens or finger nail. Flowers with 5 petals 2–2.2 mm long, whitish to pale yellowish-green. Flower clusters 3–17 cm long, several- to many-branched. Flowers Spring to Summer.
Leaves with margins turned down to rolled down, longer and usually narrower than the leaves of Astrotricha sp. Wallagaraugh River (R.O.Makinson 1228) NSW Herbarium
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Astrotricha~linearis (accessed 13 April 2021)
PlantNET notes that it is likely that populations from the south of the State and Victoria representst a separate species, distinguishable by having large leaf projections only (no granules) which are situated on leaf surface wrinkles. More northerly populations (Beecroft Peninsula, Bungonia, and Bathurst-Orange) have smaller, more evenly distributed granules.
Subsp. Pine Mountain (A.R.Bean 9452) Vic. Herbarium): Shrub to 2 m high. Leaves 2–5 cm long. Petals white.
Rare Vic.
VICFLORA description of Atrotricha linearis subsp. Pine Mountain (as Astrotricha linearis subsp. 1): https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/b5417957-f4f0-4399-bd25-a9ca452296f7 (accessed 13 April 2021)
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