Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Bursaria longisepala

Flowering branch. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Fruiting branch. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

 None

Family

Pittosporaceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, disturbed sites, and rocky areas. Ranges. Eastern parts of the tablelands, north of the Hume Higway.

Notes

Shrub, often sprawling and less than 1 m high. Branches with numerous spines. Young branchlets moderately hairy with spreading hairs. Leaves hairless, clustered around spiny short shoots. Adult leaves 0.6–0.9 cm long, 1–3 mm wide; margins entire. Seedling leaves 0.8–1.2 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, hairless, margins toothed. Flowers white with 5 petals each 6–8 mm long. 5 cream sepals 3.5–4 mm long. Flowers single or in few-flowered clusters. Flowers mainly summer.

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