Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Leucopogon fraseri
Common name
Sharp Beard-heath
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, shrubland, heath, rocky places, and moist sites. Widespread. Rare on the Western Slopes.
Notes
Shrub to about 0.3 m high, prostrate to sprawling. Leaf tips sharp. Fruit fleshy. Branchlets shortly bristly. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.3–0.81 cm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, flat, or lower surface slightly concave and with 3 more or less central parallel veins, the other veins prominently diverging, margins flat or slightly curved down, and toothed towards the tips, tips gradually tapering to a point, terminating in a slender mucro to about 1.5 mm long. Flowers erect, white, sometimes with a pink to red tube, 5–7 mm long, tubular, with 5 hairy lobes 2.0–3.4 mm long. Flowers single or paired. Fruit 4–5.3 mm long, oval to oval, yellow when mature. Flowers most of the year.
Styphelia nesophila in VICFLORA. (accessed 26 February, 2021)
Family was Epacridaceae.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leucopogon~fraseri (accessed 26 February, 2021)
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