Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Crowea exalata
Common name
Small Crowea
Family
Rutaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, heath, and rocky sites.
subsp. exalata: Widespread but scattered.
subsp. magnifolia: Coast, ranges, and the eastern parts of the tablelands.
Notes
Shrub to 1 m high, occasionally prostrate. Stalks of individual flowers fleshy towards the top. Branchlets slender, scarcely angled, hairy with fine hairs between the ridges formed by the leaf bases continuing down the stems, or hairless. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 0.5–7.5 cm long, 1.5–9.5 mm wide, hairless, tips rounded to blunt, and with a small point. Flowers pink to pale mauve or white (sometimes green at the fruiting stage), with 5 petals each 5–14 mm long. Flowering: sporadically throughout the year.
Protected NSW.
subsp. exalata: Petals 5–12 mm long. Stalks of individual flowers 0.5–1.5 mm long. Leaves 0.5–5 cm long, 1.5–5 mm wide; leaf tips blunt to pointed.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
subsp. magnifolia: Petals 7.5–14 mm long. Stalks of individual flowers 1.5–4 mm long. Leaves 2–7.5 cm long, 3–9.5 mm wide; leaf tips often with a mucro, notched in some southern populations.
PlantNET description of species and key to subspecies: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Crowea~exalata (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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