Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Pandorea pandorana

Flowering stem. Photographer Don Wood, Mumbulla State Forest north of Bega

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

Juvenile foliage. Photographer Don Wood, Carnarvon Station Bush Heritage Reserve via Augathella, Qld

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Wonga Wonga vine, Wonga vine

Family

Bignoniaceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, rocky sites, and moist gullies. Often persisting in cleared areas. Coast and ranges. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Woody scrambler or climber to 6 m high or more. Older branches more or less longitudinally ridged and with fawnish bark. Stems hairless. Leaves mostly opposite each other, rarely in whorls of 3, compound. Adult leaves 8–16 cm long, with 3-11 leaflets each 2.5–8 cm long, 2–30 mm wide, tips pointed with a mucro, margins usually entire, surfaces hairless. Juvenile leaves 2–8 cm long and with 7–17 small bluntly toothed leaflets. Flowers 10–25 mm long, 5-10 mm in diameter, white to cream, often with purple, maroon, or brownish blotches or stripes in the throat, tubular, with 5 spreading lobes 3–6 mm long. Flowers in clusters 5–22 cm long. Flowering: June–December. Seeds with a membranous wing.

Subspecies as described in PlantNET are not accepted by the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (accessed 2 May 2021)

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pandorea~pandorana (accessed 2 May 2021)