Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Leionema diosmeum

Flowering branches. Photographer Jackie Miles

Flowering branches. Photographer Don Wood, Morton National Park

Flowering shrub. Photographer Jackie Miles

Common name

None

Family

Rutaceae

Where found

Forest and heath. Coast and ranges, rarely elsewhere.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m high. Stems hairy. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 0.4–2 cm long, 1–4 mm wide, tips blunt, margins strongly rolled down, upper surface hairless to hairy or rarely rough with minute projections, lower surface hairy or coarsely stellate hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Flowers with 5 petals each 4–7 mm long, creamy yellow, often pale red outside towards the tips, sparsely glandular. Flowers in compact heads. Flowering: late winter to spring.  

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