Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Tylophora barbata
Common name
Bearded tylophora
Family
Apocynaceae
Where found
Forest and along streams. Coast, ranges, and occasionally on the tablelands.
Notes
Slender twiner, trailing plant, or vine, to 3 m tall. Stems more or less hairless. Leaves opposite each other, 2.5–7.5 cm long, 10–40 mm wide, thin, both surfaces more or less hairless, tips pointed. Flowers 5–9 mm in diameter, dark red or dark brown to reddish purple, tubular, with 5 spreading lobes, in 3–5-flowered short clusters in groups of 1-3. Flowers spring–summer.
Family was Asclepiadaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Tylophora~barbata (accessed 26 March, 2021)
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