Pittosporum revolutum
Pittosporum revolutum, commonly known as rough-fruited pittosporum, yellow pittosporum, Brisbane laurel or wild yellow jasmine, is a flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and grows in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland. It is a small shrub with fragrant yellow flowers.
Description
Pittosporum revolutum is a spreading shrub or small tree to about high, branchlets and leaves covered with rusty-coloured short matted hairs. The older leaves are smooth with occasional hairs on the lower surface, dull, dark green, alternately arranged or clustered, oval, elliptic or egg-shaped, long, wide, margins wavy or smooth. The fragrant, bisexual flowers, vary in number are borne at the end of branches in clusters, pedicels long, sepals lance-shaped about long, petals oblong-shaped, down-curved, long and yellow. Flowering occurs in September and October and the fruit is a yellow-orange coloured capsule, ellipsoid or globe-shaped, long, warty and wrinkled.Taxonomy and naming
Pittosporum revolutum was first formally described in 1811 by W.T.Aiton and the description was published in Hortus Kewensis. The specific epithet means "curling down" referring to the petals.Distribution and habitat
Rough-fruited pittosporum grows in sheltered situations on ranges and coastal areas of New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.Image:Pittosporum revolutum Outlook Park Eastwood.jpg|thumb|Opened fruiting capsule
Image:Pittosporum revolutum flowers.jpg|thumb|Flowers