Aphanopetalum resinosum, known as the gum vine, is a small plant growing in rainforest or eucalyptus forest in eastern Australia, from north-east Victoria, through New South Wales and north to Queensland.

Description

Usually a vine or a small, rambling shrub growing in moist areas. Leaves 4 to 8 cm long, 1.5 to 3 cm wide, wavy edged or toothed. Leaf stem 2 to 5 mm long. The stems hairless, marked with lenticels. Four petal flowers, which appear in spring and summer, form on cymes, petals 1 to 3 mm long. The fruit is a nut, 2 to 3 mm long.

Distribution

It grows in rainforest or eucalypt forest of eastern Australia, from northeastern Victoria, through New South Wales and northern Queensland, where it occurs in wetlands, rainforests and in riparian zones within open woodlands.

Conservation status

In Victoria it is listed as "vulnerable", being known only from a single collection near Mallacoota.