Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Phebalium glandulosum subsp. glandulosum

Branches with flowers and flower buds. Australian Plant Image Index, Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

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

Common name

Desert Phebalium

Family

Rutaceae

Where found

Forest, mallee, heath, and rocky sites. Western Slopes.

Notes

Shrub to 2.5 m high. Stems cylindrical, glandular-warty, with silvery to rusty scales. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 0.3–1.5 cm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, linear to wedge-shaped or cordate, broadest at the tip, margins more or less glandular and wavy, upper surface dull, glandular-warty, with a deeply impressed midrib, lower surface silvery scaly, sparsely warty, with a prominent midrib, tips squared off to notched or cordate. Flowers to about 10 mm in diameter, cream to bright yellow with 5 scaly petals. Flowers in 6-12 flowered clusters. Flowering: spring.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Phebalium~glandulosum (accessed 25 January, 2021)