Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Leionema coxii

Flower clusters and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, Booderee Botanic Gardens, Jervis Bay

Common name

None

Family

Rutaceae

Where found

Open forest, ridges, and stream banks. Ranges. Budawang Range to Deua National Park.

Notes

Shrub mostly to 3 m high. Stems angled, covered with minute glands, hairless. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 3–7 cm long, 10–15 mm wide, tips pointed, margins finely toothed, upper surface glossy, lower surface hairless, midrib sunken above and prominent below. Flowers with 5 creamy to yellowish white petals, each about 5 mm long, gland-dotted. Flowers in clusters of 10–30 flowers. Flowering: spring–summer.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leionema~coxii  (accessed 22 January, 2021)