Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Leucopogon exolasius

Common name

Woronora beard-heath

Family

Ericaceae

Where found

Woodland, rocky hillsides, and near streams. Sydney area. Upper Georges River area and in Heathcote National Park.

Notes

Shrub to 1 m high. Leaves sharp-pointed. Branchlets hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.52–1.5 cm long, 1.2–2.4 mm wide, rough, upper surface convex, lower surface striate-ribbed, margins curved or rolled down, and toothed to fringed towards the tips. Flowers white, tubular, the tube 3.1–3.6 mm long, bearded inside near the throat, with 5 lobes, hairy outside, each 4–5.4 mm long. Flowers spreading to drooping, 1–3 together, on stalks 2–5.3 mm long. Flowering August-September. Fruit oval, 4.4–4.8 mm long, finely ribbed.

Family was Epacridaceae.

Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.

NSW Threatened Species profile with photo:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10473 (accessed 7 January, 2021)

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leucopogon~exolasius (accessed 7 January, 2021)