Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Ripogonum fawcettianum

Common name

Small supplejack

Family

Ripogonaceae

Where found

Forest. Coastal north of Wollongong.

Notes

Climber with stems to about 5 m long, sometimes straggling and shrub-like when young. Stems usually sparsely prickly. Fruit fleshy. Stems hairy to hairless with yellowish to brownish hairs. Leaves opposite each other, often appearing compound, 5–10 cm long, 25–40 mm wide, surfaces mostly hairless except for the main veins, tips pointed, bases cordate, stalks4–7 mm long, brownish tomentose. Flowers with 6 cream to white 'petals', each 4–5 mm long, on stalks 2–5 mm long, in many-flowered clusters. Fruit fleshy, orange-red, round, 8–12 mm in diameter. Flowering: winter and spring.

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