Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Darwinia camptostylis

Flowering stems. Photographer Jackie Miles

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Green Cape, Ben Boyd National Park south of Eden.

Plant. Unknown photographer, Green Cape, Ben Boyd National Park south of Eden.

Common name

Clustered darwinia

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Woodland and heath. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands.

Notes

Shrub rarely more than 0.3 m tall, upright or sprawling. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, 0.6-1.7 cm long, 0.4-1.6 mm wide, hairless. Flowers with 5 sepals 0.1-0.3 mm long and 5 curved petals each 0.8-1.2 mm long at the top of the floral tube. Floral tube 3-6 mm long, white to cream, sometimes becoming red towards the tips, smooth between the broad or rounded longitudinal ridges. Style 2.5-5 mm long, white, sometimes turning red. Each flower surrounded by 2 bracteoles 3.5-6 mm long, yellow-green, which fall after the flowers open. Flowers in pairs, 2-4 pairs clustered at the base of the upper leaves. Flowers Autumn to Spring.

Rare Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Darwinia~camptostylis (accessed 9 January, 2021)

Additional information in Briggs, B.G. (1962) The New South Wales Species of Darwinia. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium. 3(3): 141, fig. 5a.