Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Stackhousia monogyna

Flower cluster. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Scottsdale Bush Heritage Reserve near Bredbo

Flowering plants. Photographer Don Wood, Ben Boyd National Park, south of Eden

Common name

Creamy candles, Candles, Creamy stackhousia

Family

Celastraceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, heath, grassland, and moist places, rarely in swamps. Widespread. 

Notes

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)