Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pseudanthus orbicularis
Common name
Tangled Pseudanthus
Family
Picrodendraceae
Where found
Open forest, woodland, shrubland, heath, and rocky sites. Ranges south of Batemans Bay. Coastal south of Eden. Western Slopes north of Cowra.
Notes
Shrub to 1.5 m high. Stems hairless to minutetly rough. Leaves opposite each other, 0.14–0.4 cm long, 1–3 mm wide, leathery, leaves more or less flat, hairless, margins thickened and entire, tips blunt and often curved down. Male and female flowers on the same plant. Male flowers with 6 creamy white or red 'petals' each 0.9–1.3 mm long, spreading. Female flowers with 5-6 pale red 'petals' each 1.4–1.7 mm long. Flowers single. Seed cases mottled green and red, hairless, narrowly oval, with persistent 'petals', 3–5 mm long. Flowers all year, mainly Sep.–Nov.
Family was Euphorbiaceae.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pseudanthus~orbicularis (accessed 3 February, 2021)
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