Parsonsia fulva

Location & distribution maps

Plant  information

Common name:         Furry Silkpod

Conservation status: ...

Etymology:   

Flowers

• Flowers in loose axillary cymose panicles, on pedicels 3–5 mm long

• Corolla lobes pubescent outside, bearded inside at the base, strongly reflexed, c. 3 mm long; tube c. 1.5 mm long

• Anther cone about three-quarters exserted, filaments not twisted

• Flowering: November–December

Fruit:                            

• Capsule 15–20 cm long, c. 8 mm diameter, pubescent

Leaves:         

• Leaves broad-ovate or elliptic, 8–20 cm long, 5–13 cm wide

• Apex short-acuminate or acute

• Base broad-cuneate to rounded or shallowly cordate (2-lobed at the base in leaves on juvenile plants)

• Upper surface glabrous or finely hairy, lower surface softly pubescent with brown hairs, small domatia present

• Petiole 15–30 mm long

Stem & branches: 

• Twining stems

• New growth brown-silky

• Sap watery

Roots:         

Habit:        

• Large woody climber to 30 m high 

Habitat:   

Distribution:                  

• Grows in subtropical rainforest; north from Gibraltar Ra. in NSW

• Other Australian states: Qld

Additional notes:     

Sources of information:

• https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Parsonsia~fulva (2023)