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Leionema praetermissum

Leionema praetermissum
Photo: Allthingsnative, CC BY-SA 4.0

Leionema praetermissum is a small, restricted Australian shrub to about 2 m with white star-flowered blooms, found only in wetlands along the Colo River in New South Wales. It is a wild species rarely cultivated, so care advice is limited to general knowledge of related Leionema.

Family
Rutaceae (Citrus family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep soil moist but never waterlogged, as it grows in wetland margins.
Soil
Sandy, free-draining but moisture-retentive soil.
Temperature
10–28 °C; protect from hard frost
How easy
Hard
Native range
New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Leionema praetermissum, is a shrub with warty stems covered in hairs, white flowers with spreading petals, and prominent stamens. It has a restricted distribution in New South Wales.

Where it grows

This species has a restricted distribution, it grows in wetlands adjacent to water courses in sand, amongst boulders in vegetation thickets along the Colo River in the Wollemi National Park in New South Wales.

Other Leionema plants

Forest Phebalium · Notched Phebalium · Leionema carruthersii · Leionema ceratogynum · Leionema coxii · Toothed Phebalium · Leionema diosmeum · Tall Phebalium · Leionema ellipticum · Kangaroo Island Phebalium · Moogerah Phebalium · Hillebrands Waxflower

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leionema praetermissum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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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