Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Marsdenia viridiflora subsp. viridiflora
Common name
Native pear
Family
Apocynaceae
Where found
Woodland and shrubland. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands, mostly north of Picton.
Notes
Climber with twining stems to 4 m high. Young stems hairy with fine hairs with colourless hairs, older stems and most leaves hairless. Leaves opposite each other, 2–12 cm long, 2–20 mm wide, rather thick, slightly fleshy, midvein prominent, channelled above, surfaces hairless or with scattered outgrowths below, bases sometimes cordate, glands minute, 1–5 at the base of the midvein. Flowers greenish or yellow, 3–6 mm in diameter, with a cup-shaped to bell-shaped tube, and 5 lobes, in 3–10 flowered umbels. Flowering: spring.
Family was Asclepiadaceae.
Endangered population in the Bankstown, Blacktown, Camden, Campbelltown, Fairfield, Holroyd, Liverpool and Penrith local government areas.
Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species or a part of a threatened ecological community.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10508 (accessed 7 January, 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=in&name=Marsdenia~viridiflora+subsp.~viridiflora (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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