Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Pseudanthus divaricatissimus

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Jackie Miles

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

Shrub. Photographer Jackie Miles

Common name

A Pseudanthus

Family

Picrodendraceae

Where found

Heath and rocky places. Coast, ranges, tablelands, and Western Slopes. Mainly Blue Mountains.

Notes

Rigid shrub, sprawling to prostrate. Stems to 0.2 m long, hairless to rough with minute projections. Leaves alternating along the stems or opposite each other, 0.2–0.55 cm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, leathery, margins thickened and entire, tips blunt and curved down. Male and female flowers on the same plant. Flowers with 6 'petals'. Male flowers pale red, 'petals' 0.8–1.5 mm long. Female flowers reddish, 'petals' 1.2–1.6 mm long. Flowers single or in clusters. Seed case mottled green and red, oval, smooth, 4–4.5 mm long. Flowering: spring.

Family was Euphorbiaceae.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pseudanthus~divaricatissimus  (accessed 3 February, 2021)