Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Tylophora linearis

Common name

A tylophora

Family

Apocynaceae

Where found

Open forest, woodland, and shrubland. Western Slopes.

Notes

Shrub or herbaceous to woody twiner, rhizomatous. Stems cylindrical, hairless or sparsely hairy. Leaves opposite each other, 1-5 cm long, 0.5-3 mm wide, dark green on both surfaces, veins obscure, upper surface hairless, lower surface hairless or with scattered hairs or scales; tips pointed; margins with occasional hairs. Flowers dark purple inside, dark olive green outside, 3–7 mm in diameter, tubular, with 5 spreading lobes, in usually single clusters of 3–8 flowers, occasionally 2 or more together on a common stalk. Flowers spring, also recorded May.

Family was Asclepiadaceae. 

Endangered Australia. Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the 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 with photo:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10815 (accessed 8 January 2021)

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