Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Stackhousia monogyna
Creamy candles, Candles, Creamy stackhousia
Celastraceae
Dry forest, woodland, heath, grassland, and moist places, rarely in swamps. Widespread.
Perennial herb to 0.7 m high, hairless or hairy, occasionally rough to the touch. Stems striate. Leaves alternating up the stems or irregularly opposite each other, 1-5 cm long, 1-8 mm wide, tips blunt, pointed, or with a short mucro. Flowers tubular, with 5 lobes, white to deep yellow; tube 4–11 mm long; lobes 2.5–5 mm long. Flowers in a dense cylindrical or sparse to dense one-sided spike. Flowering: late winter to summer.
Family Stackhousiaceae in PlantNET.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Stackhousia~monogyna (accessed 27 April 2021)
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