Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Bauera microphylla

Flowering stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, between Marulan and Bundanoon

Common name

None

Family

Cunoniaceae

Where found

Open sandy heath. Coast, ranges, and tablelands, north of Marulan.

Notes

Shrub to 0.30 m high, trailing. Leaves opposite each other, appearing simple and whorled. Leaves compound, with 3 leaflets each to 0.9 cm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, margins entire or with 2–6 teeth on each margin. Flowers white to pink, with 5–7 petals each 3–6 mm long. Flowers on stalks more than 5 mm long. Flowering: spring to summer.

Family was Baueraceae.

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