Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Stackhousia spathulata
Common name
Coast Stackhousia
Family
Celastraceae
Where found
Dry forest and heath in sandy regions, often near beaches, on foredunes, or beside coastal lagoons. Coastal.
Notes
Perennial herb, often shrubby, to 0.5 m high, sometimes sprawling, hairless. Stems striate. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.8–3 cm long, 2.5–15 mm wide, thick, tips more or less blunt. Flowers fragrant, white to cream, tubular, the tube 6–8 mm long, with 5 lobes 4–5 mm long. Flowers single at the nodes, forming a dense cylindrical spike. Flowering: winter to summer. Seeds 4–6 mm long, with 3 prominent wings.
Family Stackhousiaceae in PlantNET.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Stackhousia~spathulata (accessed 27 April 2021)
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