Common name: Doubah, Doubah, Native Pear, Austral Doubah, Cogola Bush
Marsdenia australis (R.Br.) Druce APNI* Synonyms: Leichhardtia australis R.Br. APNI*
Description: Twining stems to 4 m high, tubers to 16 cm diam.; young stems finely hairy, older stems and leaves finely hairy or rarely glabrous, latex milky.
Leaves mostly linear to linear-lanceolate, mostly 3–12 cm long and 2–8 mm wide, 10–18 times as long as broad; rather thick, slightly fleshy; midvein prominent, channelled above, secondary veins obscure or faint; glands minute, 1–5 at base of midvein, rarely absent; petiole slender, 2–15 mm long.
Umbels 6–19-flowered; peduncle 3–15 mm long; pedicels 3–15 mm long. Flowers c. 4–5 mm diam., greenish to yellow. Calyx segments 2–4 mm long. Corolla 6–8 mm long, ovoid, the lobes erect or incurved glabrous; lobes 3–4 mm long; tube glabrous inside.
Follicles ovoid to oblong, 4–10 cm long, 25–35 mm diam., thick-walled, smooth; coma 20–40 mm long.
Flowering: late spring to summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in woodland and scrub in drier inland regions.
NSW subdivisions: NWS, CWS, NWP, SWP, NFWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. W.A. S.A. N.T.
Text by G. J. Harden & J. B. Williams (1992)
Taxon concept: P.I. Forster (1995)
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