Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Rhytidosporum prostratum

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

None

Family

Pittosporaceae

Where found

Woodland in moist situations and wet heath. Ranges and tablelands north from Budawang National Park.

Notes

Shrub, prostrate or trailing, stems 10–100 cm long, unbranched or few-branched. Young stems sparsely hairy. Leaves alternating along the stems, arranged in two rows on opposite sides of the stems and in the same plane, usually 0.6–1.2 cm long, 1.5–7 mm wide, margins slightly curved down, entire or toothed in the top half; surfaces hairless except for scattered hairs on the upper surface, tips commonly 3-toothed with the central tooth largest. Flowers with 5, sometimes 6, petals each 3–4 mm long, white inside, pale mauve to purplish outside. Flowers in clusters of 1-6 flowers, on stalks usually 10–12 mm long, hairy. Flowering: late spring to summer.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Rhytidosporum~prostratum  (accessed 5 February, 2021)