Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Leionema lachnaeoides

Common name

None

Family

Rutaceae

Where found

Heath on exposed sandstone cliff tops and terraces. Blue Mountains.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m tall. Stems white, finely stellate-hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), soon becoming hairless. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 0.5-2.0 cm long, 1 mm wide, more or less cylindrical and slightly curved upwards, tips pointed, margins closely rolled down, surfaces smooth, lower surface usually obscured. Flowers with 5 yellow petals each about 5 mm long, gland-dotted. Flowers single. Flowering winter to late spring.

Endangered Australia. Endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.

NSW Threatened Species profile with photos:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10457 (accessed 6 January, 2021)

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leionema~lachnaeoides  (accessed 6 January, 2021)