Woollsia pungens

Description: Erect shrub usually 20–100 cm, sometimes to 200 cm high, hoary-pubescent.

Leaves horizontal to ± reflexed, ovate, 3.5–12 mm long, 1.5–6 mm wide, subulate, apex long-acuminate and with mucro 2–4 mm long, base rounded to cordate; petiole 0–1 mm.

Flowers 8–13 mm diam., white to dark pink, sweetly scented; bracts ovate to triangular, acute, ciliolate. Sepals 8–10 mm long. Corolla tube slender, 7–14 mm long; lobes spreading, rhombic, 4–5 mm long, finely mucronate. Anthers c. 2 mm long; filament attached ± at midpoint.

Fruit c. 2.5 mm diam.

Woollsia pungens is listed in the following regions:

South Coast  |  Hunter Region

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