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Smooth Scrub Turpentine

Rhodamnia maideniana

Smooth Scrub Turpentine
Photo: Poyt448 Peter Woodard, CC0
Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SE. Queensland to NE. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Rhodamnia maideniana, known as the smooth scrub turpentine, is a rare sub-tropical rainforest plant of eastern Australia. It is listed on ROTAP with a rarity factor of 2RC-.

It occurs in coastal areas, north of the Richmond River, New South Wales and adjacent areas over the border into Queensland. A bushy shrub growing to 3 metres tall. The type specimen was collected by the Richmond River in April, 1891 by W. Bäuerlen.

Other Rhodamnia plants

Brown Malletwood · Silverback · Brush Turpentine · Iron malletwood · White Malletwood · Rhodamnia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rhodamnia maideniana 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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