Female flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Male flowers and leaves. Photo: Russell Best, Big Desert Wilderness, Vic

Young fruiting bodies and leaves. Photo: Russell Best, Big Desert Wilderness, Vic

Plant. Photo: Russell Best, Big Desert Wilderness, Vic

Common Name

False Buckbush, Wheel-fruit, Fireweed

Family

Gyrostemonaceae

Notes

Shrub to 1.5m tall. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5-3.5cm long, 1-3mm wide, linear to narrow cylindrical or flat, often grooved beneath, with pointed (usually curved) tips. Male and female flowers on different plants. Flowers with 0 petals; female flowers green, with cream stigmas, male flowers reddish brown, with cream stamens, solitary at the bases of the leaves.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 291

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Gyrostemon~australasicus