Family: Rutaceae
Phebalium glandulosum
Citation:
Desert phebalium.
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Shrub to 1.5 m; branchlets glandular-verrucose, silvery to ferruginous-scaly; leaves with petioles c. 1 mm long; lamina narrowly oblong-cuneate, c. 5 x 1.5-3 mm, truncate to emarginate, upper surface mostly glandular-warty, lower surface scaly.
Inflorescence terminal, a 2-9-flowered umbel-like cluster; pedicels 3-6 mm long; calyx tube 1-1.5 mm; calyx lobes c. 1 mm long, glandular-warty; petals c. 3 x 2 mm, yellow, scaly beneath; anthers yellow; gynoecium 5-carpellate; carpels c. 2 mm high, silvery- or ferruginous-scaly; style 4-5 mm long; stigma globular.
Cocci 3-4 mm high, rounded or beaked, scaly; seeds not seen.
Published illustration:
Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 448; Jessop (1981) Flora of central Australia, fig. 224.
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Distribution:
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N.S.W.; Vic.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Sept. — Oct.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Taxonomic notes:
A species of 3 subspecies of south-eastern Australia, 1 of these in S.Aust.
Author:
Not yet available
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