Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Sannantha pluriflora

Flowering branches. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering branches. Photographer Don Wood, Green Cape Road, Ben Boyd National Park, south of Eden

Trunk. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Shrub. Photographer Jackie Miles

Common name

Tall baeckea

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Forest, heath, and along streams. Coast and ranges. Occasional elsewhere. Naturalised in the ACT.

Notes

Shrub or tree to 4 m tall. Bark rough. Branchlets 4-angled, slightly flanged. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, 0.7-3 cm long, 1-6 mm wide, midvein distinctly impressed above and often keeled below; tips blunt to pointed; margins entire, oil glands prominent, especially on lower surface. Flowers to 10 mm in diameter, with 5 white petals each 2.5-3.7 mm long, in clusters of 2-9 flowers, with individual flower stalks attached to a main stalk. Flowers Spring to Autumn.

Was Baeckea virgata, then Babingtonia virgata, then Babingtonia pluriflora.

Protected NSW (as Baeckea virgata).

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