Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Wollastonia uniflora

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Coffs Harbour

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Norfolk Island

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, Jervis Bay

Common name

None

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Coastal dunes and headlands north of Milton.

Notes

Climbing shrub or sprawling perennial herb to 1 m high, rooting at the nodes. Stems sparsely hairy. Leaves opposite each other, 2–12 cm long, 15–65 mm wide, tips pointed to blunt, surfaces grey-green to yellow-green; upper surface sparsely to moderately densely appressed bristly, lower surface with dense erect or somewhat appressed simple hairs, margins toothed, or rarely almost entire. Flower heads 20–25 mm in diameter. 'Petals' 7–16, yellow, sometimes white. Centres yellow, with about 50 florets. Flower heads in clusters of 1–5. Flowers summer.

Was Melanthera biflora.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Wollastonia~uniflora (accessed 12 February, 2021)