Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Platysace lanceolata
Common name
Shrubby platysace
Family
Apiaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, heath, and rocky areas. Widespread.
Notes
Shrub to 1.5 m tall. Stems usually hairy with fine hairs, sometimes hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, usually 1–5 cm long, 3–15 mm wide, tips pointed or blunt; surfaces hairless. Leaf shape varies from almost round to long and narrow. Flowers 1-3 mm in diameter, with 5 white to creamy petals, in many-flowered compact to open clusters 15-50 mm in diameter. Flower buds sometimes pink to red externally. Flowering: September–March.
Hybrids between Platysace lanceolata and Platysace stephensonii are recorded from NSW.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Platysace~lanceolata (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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