Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Wilsonia rotundifolia
Common name
Round-leafed wilsonia
Family
Convolvulaceae
Where found
In mud in coastal and subcoastal saltmarshes and brackish swamps, and in inland saline sites and the margins of salt lakes. Lake George and Lake Bathurst. Coastal north of Tuross Head.
Notes
Shrub with prostrate stems, rooting from the nodes, more or less hairy with spreading hairs. Leaves fleshy, alternating in neat rows along the stems, 0.15–0.7 cm long, 1–3 mm wide, hairy when young, more or less broad-oval with pointed tips, to oblong-spoon-shaped with blunt tips, stalkless, or with short stalks . Flowers white, cream or yellow, with a bell-shaped tube 4.5–5 mm long, and 5 lobes each 2–3 mm long. Flowers single. Flowering: mainly spring–summer.
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=10839 (accessed 8 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Wilsonia~rotundifolia (accessed 8 January 2021)
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