Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Cyclophyllum longipetalum

Common name

Coast canthium, Brush canthium

Family

Rubiaceae

Where found

Rainforest and near streams. Coastal north of Ulladulla. Blue Mountains.

Notes

Tree or shrub to 25 m high. Fruit fleshy. Bark finely fissured or cracked, greyish to brown, lenticels prominent. Stems hairless. Leaves opposite each other, 2–10 cm long, 10–60 mm wide, thin and leathery, upper surface deep green and dull, lower surface paler, domatia sometimes present (handlens/macro app on your mobile phone needed), tips blunt to drawn out into a fine point. Flowers fragrant, white to orange or creamy golden brown, tubular, the tube 5–12 mm long, conspicuously hairy at the top of the tube, with 5 lobes each 3–5 mm long, fringed on the margins. Flowers in 1–6 flowered clusters. Flowering: summer–autumn. Fruit orange to red, compressed oval, 10-12 mm long.

PlantNET description with photo:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cyclophyllum~longipetalum (accessed 7 January, 2021)