Family: Rutaceae
Asterolasia phebalioides
Citation:
F. Muell., Trans. Phil. Soc. Vic. 1:10 (1854).
Synonymy: Pleurandropsis phebalioides (F. Muell.) Baill.; Adansonia 10:306 (1872).
Common name: Downy starbush.
Description:
Small slender shrub to 1.5 m high; branchlets densely grey-tomentose with silvery- and ferruginous-stellate hairs; leaves densely crowded, lacking obvious petioles; lamina broadly cuneate, less than 1 cm long, densely stellate-tomentose particularly on the lower surface; margin entire; apex retuse.
Inflorescence terminal with subsessile solitary flowers; calyx minute; petals 8-10 mm long, golden-yellow; stamens 10; ovary densely stellate-pubescent; stigma deeply cleft into 5 linear lobes.
Fruit and seed not seen.
Published illustration:
Galbraith (1967) Wildflowers of Victoria edn 3:t.86.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: KI. Vic.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Sept. — Dec.
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SA Distribution Map based
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specimens held in the
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Biology:
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