Tylophora woollsii Benth. APNI* 
Description: Slender twiner, stems glabrous to sparsely hairy; latex clear, watery.
Leaves with lamina ovate to broad-ovate, 3.5–8 cm long, 2–5.5 cm wide; apex acuminate and mucronate, base slightly to distinctly cordate, firm-textured, both surfaces ± glabrous; petiole 7–20 mm long.
Flowers in 3–7 or more short umbels in a divaricately branching panicle, usually shorter than the subtending leaf, branches often zigzag; pedicels 1–2 mm long. Corolla 5–6 mm diam., purple to red; lobes spreading, ovate to lanceolate, 2–2.5 mm long, glabrous. Corona glabrous.
Follicles 5–8 cm long.
Flowering: summer–autumn.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in wet sclerophyll forest and rainforest in the Clouds Creek area near Nymboida and in sclerophyll forest near Parramatta; rare.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, NT
Other Australian states: Qld
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Endangered; Commonwealth EPBC: Endangered
Text by G. J. Harden & J. B. Williams
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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