Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Triplarina nowraensis

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering branches. Photographer Don Wood, near Nowra

Shrubs. Photographer Jackie Miles, west of Nowra

Common name

Nowra heath myrtle

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Wet heath near along streams and in swampy areas. Within 20km of Nowra.

Notes

Shrub to 5 m tall. Bark grey and scaly. Leaves highly aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, 0.3-0.5 cm long, 1.2-1.7 mm wide, tips squared off and curved down, margins entire, large oil glands in 2 small rows along the leaf on either side of the mid-rib, and scattered smaller glands. Flowers about 4.5 mm in diameter, with 5 cream to white petals, each 2–2.4 mm long. Flowers in pairs. Calyx lobes triangular. Flowers Spring to Summer.

Endangered Australia. Endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.

NSW Threatened Species profile:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10813 (accessed 8 January, 2021)

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Triplarina~nowraensis (accessed 8 January, 2021)