Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Cryptandra ericoides

Flowering stem. Photographer John Tann, Royal National Park near Sydney

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Cudmirrah Nature Reserve near Sussex Inlet

Shrub. Photographer Steve Burrows, Bournda National Park south of Tathra

Common name

Heathy cryptandra

Family

Rhamnaceae

Where found

Forest and heath. Mainly coast and ranges.

Notes

Shrub to 0.6 m tall or sprawling. Young branchlets appressed hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, often appearing clustered, 0.2–1 cm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, margins strongly rolled down, upper surface more or less hairless, lower surface not visible. Flowers white, tubular, the tube narrowly bell-shaped, 3-4 mm long, with 5 lobes each about half as long as the tube, in heads of up to about 10 flowers at the ends of the branchlets. Bracts at the base of individual flowers brown, about 1 mm long. Flowers Feb.–Jun.

Vulnerable Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cryptandra~ericoides (accessed 8 January, 2021)