Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Leionema dentatum

Flower cluster and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering stem. Photographer Don Wood, Wandera State Forest, NW of Moruya

Seed cases and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer unknown, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Toothed phebalium

Family

Rutaceae

Where found

Forest. Ranges north from Deua National Park.

Notes

Tree or shrub to 6 m high. Stems more or less cylindrical. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 4–8 cm long, 1–8 mm wide, tips squared off to notched and 2-toothed, margins curved to rolled down or more or less toothed, lower surface white stellate-hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), midrib prominent. Flowers with 5 petals each about 3.5 mm long, pale yellow to white, gland-dotted, hairless. Flowers in clusters of about 10 flowers. Flowering: spring.

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