Common name: Milky Silkpod
Parsonsia dorrigoensis J.B.Williams APNI* Synonyms: Parsonsia sp. B sensu Harden (1992) APNI*
Description: Climber to 4 m high with slender twining stems, latex milky.
Leaves narrow-triangular to ± broad-ovate, 4–12 cm long, 1.5–5 cm wide, apex long-acuminate to a fine point, base rounded-truncate to cordate, lamina glabrous, lower surface green to purplish; leaves on juvenile plants narrow, with 2 rounded basal lobes; petiole 10–20 mm long, slender, purplish.
Flowers in axillary umbel-like cymes. Corolla tube ovoid, c. 2.5 mm long, bearded at the throat, lobes strongly recurved, 3–4 mm long, glabrous outside, bearded inside at the base. Anther cone with only the tip exserted; filaments twisted.
Capsule 5–7 cm long, slender, glabrous.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in subtropical and warm-temperate rainforest and sclerophyll forest from Bellinger R. to Woolgoolga. Rare.
NSW subdivisions: NC, ?NT
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Vulnerable; Commonwealth EPBC: Endangered
Text by G. J. Harden & J. B. Williams
Taxon concept: J.B. Williams (1996)
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