Parsonsia induplicata

Location & distribution maps

Plant  information

Common name:         Thin-Leaved Silkpod

Conservation status: ...

Etymology:   

Flowers

•  Flowers in small open panicles, pedicellate

• Corolla lobes 1–1.5 mm long, hood-shaped, erect, bearded at base inside; tube c. 2 mm long

• Anther cone with tip exserted; filaments straight

• Flowering: spring

Fruit:                            

• Capsule 6–10 cm long, slender

Leaves:         

• Ovate to narrow-lanceolate, 3–15 cm long, 1–4 cm wide

• Apex long-acuminate to a fine point

• Margins entire or crenate

• Lamina very thin, soft and glabrous; upper surface green, lower surface green or pale brown or purplish when dried

• Reticulum mostly invisible, secondary veins interconnecting to form an intramarginal vein

• Juvenile leaves often linear and purplish on lower surface

• Petiole 3–15 mm long

Stem & branches: 

• Watery sap

Roots:         

Habit:        

• Slender twiner

Habitat:   

• Grows in rainforest

Distribution:                  

• Chiefly on the ranges north from Stroud, 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~induplicata (2023)