Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pseudanthus ovalifolius
Common name
Oval-leafed pseudanthus, Oval-leaf pseudanthus
Family
Picrodendraceae
Where found
Dry forest. Ben Boyd National Park north of Eden.
Notes
Shrub to 0.60 m high, usually hairless. Leaves usually alternating up the stems, occasionally almost opposite each other, 0.1–0.5 cm long, 1–2 mm wide, leathery, leavs concave above, hairless, margins thickened and entire, tips blunt, and sometimes curved down. Male and female flowers on the same plant, with 6 whitish 'petals'. Male flowers with 'petals' about 2-2.5 mm long, in clusters. Female flowers single. Fruits stalkless; perianth persistent, enclosing approximately the lower half of the seed case. Seed cases oval, with persistent 'petals', 3.5–4 mm long. Flowering: Winter-Summer.
Family was Euphorbiaceae.
Endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.
Rare Vic.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10682 (accessed 7 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pseudanthus~ovalifolius (accessed 7 January 2021)
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