Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Astrotricha longifolia
Common name
None
Family
Araliaceae
Where found
Variety of habitats. Coast, ranges, and the eastern part of the tablelands, north from Morton National Park. Occasional elsewhere.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m high. Younger stems stellate hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), sometimes almost hairless and purplish on the sunward surfaces. Leaves alternating up the stems, usually 4–15 cm long, 3–26 mm wide, upper surface smooth, lower surface with a dense covering of hairs, the midvein and usually the lateral veins evident in relief, margins entire; tips pointed or rarely narrow and blunt. Flowers small, with 5 petals, white to cream. Inflorescence either to 25 cm long and hairy throughout with the pale stem surfaces obscured, or to 60 cm long and almost hairless with the axes variably purplish beneath the hairs.
The forms (f. Coastal and f. Inland) mentioned in PlantNET are Excluded Names in the Australian Plant Names Index.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Astrotricha~longifolia (accessed 4 January, 2021)
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