Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Cyphanthera scabrella

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

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

Common name

None

Family

Solanaceae

Where found

Forest. Blue Mountains.

Notes

Shrub to 1.3 m high, sometimes scrambling. Branches sparsely to moderately hairy with much-branched and forked hairs and scattered glandular hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, mostly 0.3–0.7 cm long, 2–4 mm wide, sometimes larger, tomentose. Flowers creamy-white, often tinged with yellowish green, with purple stripes, 6.5–11.5 mm long, almost hairless, tubular, with 5 lobes each 3–6.5 mm long. Flowers single or in 1–3-flowered clusters. Flowering: mainly spring.  

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cyphanthera~scabrella (accessed 10 January, 2021)