Stony Range RBG FloraBanksia serrata Bird’s Nest Fern Boronia mollis x fraseri Broad-leaved Drumsticks Cabbage Tree Palm Cyathea australis Flame Pea Flannel Flower Fuchsia Heath Native Violet Pink Rock Orchid Pittosporum revolutum Staghorn
Pittosporum revolutum is a shrub that is endemic to Australia. Common names include Yellow Pittosporum, Hairy Pittosporum, Rough-fruited Pittosporum, Revolute Pittosporum, Lemon-fruit Pittosporum, Brisbane Laurel and Wild Yellow Jasmine.
It has fragrant, yellow flowers that appear in terminal clusters during spring. Habitats range from rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest, dry sclerophyll forests and is found mainly in coastal districts on the east coast of Australia from Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. In New South Wales their range extends west to the Blue Mountains and Muswellbrook district.
Pittosporum revolutum is popular with the Pittosporum Leaf Beetle (Lamprolina impressicollis).
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Phylum: Charophyta
- Class: Equisetopsida
- Subclass: Magnoliidae
- Superorder: Asteranae
- Order: Apiales
- Family: Pittosporaceae
- Genus: Pittosporum
- Species:: Pittosporum revolutum
Footnote & References
- Many thanks for species ID to John Allison from What Plant Is That?? (Australia.), Facebook Group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/422361744524436
- Pittosporum revolutum, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittosporum_revolutum (last visited Oct. 9, 2022).
- Pittosporum revolutum Dryand. ex W.T.Aiton, New South Wales Flora Online, PlantNET, https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pittosporum~revolutum
- Pittosporum revolutum W.T.Aiton, Brisbane Laurel, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2907274
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