Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Fieldia australis
Common name
Fieldia
Family
Gesneriaceae
Where found
Rainforest and moist gullies, on tree trunks and moss-covered rocks. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands.
Notes
Climber, scrambler, epiphyte, or growing on rocks, climbing by adventitious roots. Fruit fleshy. Older stems corky. Stems hairy to sparsely hairy or bristly. Leaves opposite each other, one leaf of each pair much larger than the other, tips pointed, margins coarsely toothed, both surfaces dull and sparsely hairy. Larger leaves 3–10 cm long, 10–60 mm wide, very soft, smaller leaves usually less than half the size of the larger leaves, sometimes less than 1 cm long. Flowers creamy white to greenish yellow, 25–40 mm long, tubular, with 5 lobes, single. Flowering: most of the year. Fruit whitish. often with purple flecks, 10–30 mm long, 10–12 mm in diameter.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Fieldia~australis (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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