Pittosporaceae

Anthers opening through longitudinal slits. Flowers white, cream, yellow, green or blue and pendant
Trees or shrubs sometimes prostrate but never twinning. Fruit a 2 or 3-valved capsule
Flowers solitary or in terminal or axillary clusters; petals tubular in lower half. Ovary sessile or scarcely stipitate
Prostrate to procumbent dwarf shrubs. Leaves usually 3 mm or less wide, entire with an apical tooth. Flowers 4–6 mm long. Rhytidosporum
Inflorescence pedunculate, flowers on pedicels 6–15 mm long. Leaves obovate usually less than 12 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, tri-lobed.
Stems much branched. Flowers 1–2 together on pedicels up to 8 mm long rarely longer. Leaves clustered, stem-clasping. Undershrub. Widespread. Heath and forests. Fl. spring–summer Rhytidosporum procumbens
Stems unbranched or with very few branches, up to 100 cm long. Flowers 1–6 together on slender pedicels more than 8 mm long. Leaves alternate, 2-ranked. Prostrate to trailing shrub. Illawarra Ranges; southern Blue Mts Heath and open forests in damp places. Fl. spring R. prostratum prostratumR. prostratum