Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Correa baeuerlenii

Flowering stem. Photographer Don Wood, Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Garden north of Moruya

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

Common name

Chef's cap correa, Chef's hat correa

Family

Rutaceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, rocky sites, and stream banks. Coast and ranges between the Kings Highway and the Bega district. Rarely elsewhere.

Notes

Shrub to 2.5 m high. Stems rusty stellate hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, 2–6.5 cm long, 10–22 mm wide, upper surface hairless, lower surface sparsely and minutely stellate-hairy, becoming hairless with age, tips blunt to pointed. Flowers greenish yellow to cream, 20–30 mm long, tubular, with 4 triangular lobes. Calyx broad-cylindrical, to 7 mm long, wavy and more or less 4-toothed; the base dilated, about 9–13 mm in diameter. Flowers single. Flowers Autumn to Spring, sporadically in Summer.

Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.

NSW Threatened Species profile:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10179 (accessed 4 January, 2021)

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