Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Mitrasacme pilosa

Flower and leaves (var. pilosa). Photographer Jackie Miles

Flowering plant (var. pilosa). Photographer Don Wood, Nadgee State Forest south of Eden

Leafy stem (var. stuartii). Photographer Jackie Miles

Common name

None

Family

Loganiaceae

Where found

Moist sites in heath, rocky crevices, and other moist places.

var. pilosa:  Coast and ranges.

var. stuartii: Ranges and tablelands south from Morton National Park.

Notes

Perennial herb, to 0.15 m high, or prostrate to sprawling. Stems coarsely and densely hairy; hairs more or less spreading, rarely hairless. Leaves opposite each other, sometimes in a basal rosette, 0.3–1 cm long, 0.7–5.5 mm wide, tips pointed; margins usually curved down; surfaces hairless or hairy. Flowers white, sometimes yellowish in the throat, 3.5–6.5 mm long, tubular, with 4 lobes 1.5–2.5 mm long. Flowers single or in small leafy clusters. Flowering: chiefly spring–summer.

var. pilosa:  Individual flower stalks to 1 cm long, up to 1.5 cm long in seed. Calyx more or less evenly hairy externally, rarely hairless.

var. stuartii:  Individual flower stalks 0.8-6.5 cm long. Calyx hairless or almost hairless externally.

PlantNET description of species and key to varieties:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Mitrasacme~pilosa  (accessed 24 January, 2021)