Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Psychotria loniceroides
Common name
Hairy psychotria
Family
Rubiaceae
Where found
Forest and along streams. Coast and ranges, north from the Eden district.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 5 m high. Fruit fleshy. Bark brown, smooth, with horizontal raised lines. Stems densely hairy. Leaves opposite each other, mostly 4.5–14.5 cm long, 15–50 mm wide, tips pointed, margins more or less wavy or irregular, surfaces covered in soft hairs, lateral veins prominent, domatia often present (handlens/macro app on your mobile phone needed). Flowers 4–6 mm long, white to cream or yellowish, tubular, usually with 5 spreading lobes, each to as long as the tube. Flowers stalkless, in tight, often head-like, clusters, at the ends of the branches. Flowering: summer. Fruit whitish to yellowish, oval, 4–8 mm long.
PlantNET description : http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Psychotria~loniceroides (accessed 3 February, 2021)
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