Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Stackhousia viminea
Slender stackhousia, Yellow stackhousia
Celastraceae
Forest, woodland, heath, grassy areas, rocky areas, and damp sites, occasionally in swampy locations. Widespread.
Perennial herb to 0.7 m high, hairless. Stems striate. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.3–5 cm long, 1–8 mm wide. Leaves at the base usually reduced to scales. Flowers greenish to yellow, sometimes reddish or red-brown on the outside, tubular, the tube 2–8 mm long, with 5 lobes 1.5–3 mm long. Flowers in well-spaced sub-clusters of 1–5 flowers at the nodes, forming cylindrical spike-like clusters. Flowering: most of the year.
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~viminea (accessed 27 April 2021)
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