Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Melodinus australis

Flower and buds. Australian Plant Image Index, Australian Tropical Rainforest key, photographer B Jago, unknown place

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, Australian Tropical Rainforest key, photographer unknown, unknown place

Fruit and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Coffs Harbour

Common name

Southern melodinus

Family

Apocynaceae

Where found

Rainforest. Coast and ranges north of the Illawarra Highway.

Notes

Woody climber with twining stems, sometimes tall. Fruit fleshy. Branchlets hairless or sparsely hairy. Leaves opposite each other or in whorls of three, 3–16 cm long, 10–35 mm wide, tips bluntly pointed or pointed, margins sometimes wavy, surfaces hairless. Flowers orange-yellow to white, tubular, with 5 lobes 2–3 mm long, in clusters of mostly 5–13. Fruit orange to red. Flowering: summer–autumn.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Melodinus~australis (accessed 24 January, 2021)