Leionema lamprophyllum commonly known as shiny phebalium,is a flowering shrub in the family Rutaceae. It is a compact shrub with shiny, green leaves, white flowers and is endemic to Australia.
Description Leionema lamprophyllum is a shrub to high, glandular, warty, terete to more or less angled stems when young, star-shaped and simple hairs. Leaves are arranged alternately, aromatic, elliptic to broadly egg-shaped or more or less circular, smooth, long, wide and ending in a point or rounded. Flowers are borne in leaf axils or branch terminals, petals narrow-elliptic, long, white with pink tips on the outside. Flowering occurs in winter-spring and the fruit is a schizocarp capsule about long.
Three subspecies are recognised: Leionema lamprophyllum (F.Muell.) Paul G.Wilson subsp. lamprophyllum Leionema lamprophyllum subsp. obovatum F.M.Anderson Leionema lamprophyllum subsp. orbiculare F.M.Anderson
The species occurs in New South Wales, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory.
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