Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Darwinia glaucophylla
Common name
A Darwinia
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Woodland, heath, and shrubland, often in rocky places or near hanging swamps. Gosford Local Government Area.
Notes
Spreading, prostrate shrub to 0.15 m high. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, 0.8–1.7 cm long, to 2.2 mm wide, glaucous, often tinged red-purple. Flowers with 5 curved petals, each 1.5-2 mm long, and 5 sepals, margins entire or toothed, about 0.5 mm long, much shorter than the petals, at the top of the floral tube. Floral tube 7–8 mm long, 0.5–1.5 mm in diameter, with prominent ribs, white or pale green to yellow-green above the ovary, often becoming red towards the top. Style straight, 12–16 mm long, white, sometimes becoming red. Each flower surrounded by 2 red-brown oblong bracteoles 4–6 mm long, which fall before the flowers open. Flowers single, or in clusters of 2–4 arranged in pairs. Flowers winter–spring.
Often hybridises with Darwinia fascicularis where their distributions overlap.
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 with photos: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10204 (accessed 5 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Darwinia~glaucophylla (accessed 5 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): 143, fig. 5d.
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