Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Wilsonia backhousei
Common name
Narrow-leafed wilsonia
Family
Convolvulaceae
Where found
Margins of salt marshes and salt lakes, beaches. Coastal, north from Mimosa Rocks National Park south of Bermagui.
Notes
Shrub or perennial herb to about 0.15 m high, sprawling, more or less hairless. Leaves more or less fleshy. Leaves alternating along the stems, 0.5–2 cm long, 1–3 mm wide, tips pointed, leaves more or less hairless; stalkless. Flowers white, tubular, the tube about 10 mm long, with 5 lobes curled back, each 2–4 mm long. Stamens purple-tipped, protruding from the tube. Flowers single, stalkless or almost stalkless. Flowering: spring to summer.
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: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10838 (accessed 8 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Wilsonia~backhousei (accessed 8 January 2021)
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