Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Bursaria calcicola

Common name

None

Family

Pittosporaceae

Where found

Woodland. Wombeyan Caves area

Notes

Shrub, rarely more than 3 m high, or sprawling. Side branchlets spiny tipped. Branchlets densely covered hairy with appressed hairs. Adult leaves clustered around short spiny shoots, 0.8–1.2 cm long, about 4 mm wide, surfaces densely hairy, margins thickened and entire, tips rounded with a prominent curved mucro. Seedling leaves about 1.2 cm long, 2–3 mm wide, margins prominently toothed on the half of the leaf towards the tip. Flowers cream, tinged with pink in bud, with 5 petals each 6–7 mm long. Sepals distinctive, triangular, less than the half length of the petals, hairy, persistent. Flowers in clusters. Flowering late spring.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Bursaria~calcicola  (accessed 6 January, 2021)