Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Duma florulenta
Common name
Lignum
Family
Polygonaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and seasonally flooded low-lying areas. Western Slopes.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m tall. Branches and branchlets often ending in a spine. Stems striate, hairless. Leaves lost early, alternating up the stems, 1-7 cm long, 2-10 mm wide, hairless, tips pointed. Male and female flowers on different plants. Flowers cream to yellow-green, often reddish-tinged, with 5 'petals' 2–4 mm long, fused in the lower half. Flowers single or in dense clusters to 12 cm long. Flowers mainly Oct.–Mar.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Duma~florulenta (accessed 9 January, 2021)
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