Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Logania albiflora

Flowering branch. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering branch. Photographer Don Wood, Mumbulla State Forest north of Bega

Flowering shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Line drawings. flowering branch; flower; leaf; leaf detail. Scale bar below leaf detail 0.3 mm. T Brosch, National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board

Common name

Narrow-leaved logania

Family

Loganiaceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, heath, rocky sites, and along streams. Coast, ranges, and eastern edge of the tablelands. Occasionally ACT, the mountains to the west, and Kosciuszko National Park.

Notes

Shrub to about 2 m high. Branches often angular, hairless or slightly hairy. Leaves opposite each other, 2–5.5 cm long, 2–14 mm wide, tips pointed; margins flat or curved down, upper surface hairless to bristly, lower surface rough. Male and female flowers on different plants or flowers sometimes appearing bisexual. Flowers sweetly scented, white, 2–3 mm long, tubular, the tube 1.5–2.5 mm long, longer than the 5 lobes. Inflorescence typically more than 20 mm long, usually  more than 3-flowered. Flowers rarely single. Flowering: spring.

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