Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Discaria pubescens
Common name
Australian anchor plant, Hairy anchor plant
Family
Rhamnaceae
Where found
Dry forest and woodland, rocky situations, and near streams. Western edge of the ranges, tablelands, ACT, and Western Slopes.
Notes
Shrub to 2.5 m tall. Branches with paired spines 10–50 mm long. Stems hairy to hairless. Leaves opposite each other, often falling early, 3–15 mm long, to 3 mm wide, tips blunt or minutely mucronate within an apical notch, margins with minute teeth, surfaces hairless or a few hairs present near the tips. Flowers about 3-5 mm in diameter, bell-shaped, with 4-5 white spreading sepals, single or clustered in groups of up to 50 at the base of spines. Petals about 1 mm long, weakly hooding the stamens. Flowers Spring.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Rare Vic. Listed in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Discaria~pubescens (accessed 12 January, 2021)
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