Parsonsia tenuis 

Location & distribution maps

Plant  information

Common name:         Slender Silkpod

Conservation status: ...

Etymology:   

Flowers

• Flowers in terminal or subterminal loose cymes

• Corolla tube c. 2.5 mm long, lobes c. 4 mm long, spreading, bearded inside near the base

• Anther cone about half exserted, filaments not twisted

• Flowering: spring

Fruit:                            

• Capsule 4–9 cm long, slender

Leaves:         

• Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 3.5–11 cm long 1–2.5 cm wide

• Apex narrow-acuminate, base rounded, truncate to cordate, (linear to narrow-lanceolate in juvenile leaves)

• Margins sometimes toothed near base

• Lamina thin and soft, upper surface dull and scabrous-hairy to glabrous, lower surface paler and softly pubescent

• Tertiary veins faint, few and irregular or transverse on lower surface, not forming a regular curving pattern

• Petiole 7–12 mm long

Stem & branches: 

• Slender and twining

• Sap watery

Roots:         

Habit:        

• Slender-stemmed twiner, to 4 m high

Habitat:   

• Grows in Nothofagus moorei rainforest and in cool subtropical rainforest to 1250 m

Distribution:                  

• Known only from the McPherson Ranges

• NSW & Qld

Additional notes:     

Sources of information:

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