Asterolasia correifolia
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'Lemon Essence'
'Lemon Essence'
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Flowers:
White to cream-coloured or yellow flowers arranged in umbels of four to ten or more in leaf axils
Each flower on a pedicel 7–20 mm long
The petals are mostly 5.5–7.5 mm long
The back of the petals densely covered with coarse, star-shaped, white hairs
Fruit:
Leaves:
The leaves are lance-shaped to egg-shaped or elliptical, 20–120 mm long and 11–45 mm wide
The lower surfaces are covered with white and pigmented, star-shaped hairs
Petiole 5–11 mm long
Stem & branches:
Stems are covered with woolly, white to brown, star-shaped hairs
Roots:
Habit:
An erect shrub of up to 2.5 m
Habitat:
Wet forests in moist gullies
Distribution:
Endemic to eastern Australia
Carnarvon National Park in Queensland
On the North and Central Coasts, Central and Southern Highlands of NSW
Additional notes:
Taxonomy
This species was first formally described in 1825 by Adrien-Henri de Jussieu who gave it the name Phebalium correaefolium and published the description in Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris
In 1863, George Bentham changed the name to Asterolasia correifolia in Flora Australiensis
In 2019, Philippa R. Alvarez and Marco Duretto published a paper suggesting that the plants previously known as A. correifolia occurring in Queensland and those on the Northern Tablelands of NSW were different species
They gave those in Queensland the name Asterolasia sola and those on the Northern Tablelands A. exasperata
The new names have not yet been accepted by the Australian Plant Census
Sources of information:
(2023)