Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Symphionema paludosum
Common name
None
Family
Proteaceae
Where found
Open forest, woodland, and moist heath. Coastal areas. Ranges north of the Kings Highway.
Notes
Shrub to 0.75 m high. Sometimes appearing annual-like and flowering when only about 10 cm tall. Stems more or less hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1–3 cm long, usually deeply divided into 3–9 segments; segments of divided leaves 2–10 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide. The entire leaves, and the segments of divided leaves, cylindrical, hairless, the midvein obscure. Flowers pale yellow, with 4 spreading 'petals' each 4–5 mm long. Flowers in narrow elongated clusters 1-8 cm long. Flowering: Aug.-Nov.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Symphionema~paludosum (accessed 9 February, 2021)
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