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Bursaria longisepala

Bursaria longisepala
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Pittosporaceae (Pittospor family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
New South Wales (Blue Mts.)
Climate
subtropical

About

Bursaria longisepala is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a spiny, sprawling shrub with narrowly elliptic leaves clustered around spiny side-shoots, flowers with relatively large sepals, five spreading white petals and five stamens, and concave fruit.

Where it grows

This bursaria mostly grows on south-facing cliffs and in disturbed areas in forest and woodland and is mainly found in the Blue Mountains and sometimes on the central coast of New South Wales.

Other Bursaria plants

Bursaria calcicola · Bursaria cayzerae · Mock Orange · Bursaria occidentalis · Bursaria reevesii · Prickly Box · Sweet Bursaria · Bursaria

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bursaria longisepala by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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