Synonymy: C. rubra Smith, Exot. Bot. 2:26 (1805); C. speciosa Andrews, Bot. Rep. 10:t. 653 (1812).

Common name: None

Description:
Decumbent or erect shrub to 1.3 m, open or dense, often with ferruginous tomentose branches; petioles, 1-4 mm long; lamina narrowly ovate to ovate, 1-2.5 x 0.5-1.5 cm, with entire to irregularly crenate margins, base rounded to cordate, glabrous to scabridulose on both surfaces.

Flowers pendulous, pedunculate, 1-3 (rarely to 5); terminal leaf pair as foliaceous bracts; calyx semi-orbicular, 3-6 mm long, more or less 4-dentate; corolla cylindrical to funnel-shaped, 1.5-3 cm long, red or orange with green tips; filaments of the stamens opposite the petals considerably broader than the filaments opposite the sepals; anthers enclosed or just exserted; ovary densely tomentose.

Fruit 6-9 mm long; seeds 3-5 x c. 2 mm, variable in colour, grey, brown, black or mottled grey-brown.

	Correa reflexa var. reflexa
Image source: fig 414g in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  S.Aust.: SE.   Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. Flowering time: April — Sept.

Biology: Crushed leaves have a distinctive peppery smell.

Taxonomic notes: Hybridisation with C. schlechtendalii is known in S.Aust. Hybrids are also known from N.S.W., Vic., Tas. and involve C. alba, C. aemula and C. glabra.

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