Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Nematolepis elliptica

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT.

Common name

None

Family

Rutaceae

Where found

Forest and shrubland, often amongst rocky outcrops. Ranges and tablelands between Wadbilliga National Park and south of Captains Flat.

Notes

Shrub to 1.5 m high. Stems cylindrical, scaly, glandular-warty. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems,  2–3.5 cm long, 8–15 mm wide, tips notched, margins flat, upper surface hairless, lower surface silvery-scaly. Flowers with 5 white petals about 5 mm long. Ovary with silvery scales. Flowers in clusters of 2–5 flowers. Flowering: spring–summer.

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