Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Nematolepis squamea subsp. squamea
Common name
Satinwood
Family
Rutaceae
Where found
Wet forest and rainforest margins in moist gullies. North of Cathcart. Coast, ranges, and Southern Highlands.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 12 m high. Fruiit at first fleshy, green, becoming dry and brown. Bark smooth with prominent vertically elongated lenticels. Stems angled, hairless, silvery scaly. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 3–10 cm long, 10–22 mm wide, tips pointed to blunt, upper surface smooth, hairless and glossy green, lower surface silvery-scaly, midrib prominent. Flowers with 5 white petals each 3–5 mm long. Ovary hairless, with no scales. Flowers in 3–20 flowered clusters. Flowering: spring.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Nematolepis~squamea (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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