Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Leucopogon gelidus
Common name
Drooping beard-heath
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, scree slopes, amongst rocks, and in moist gullies. Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, and ACT. Tablelands and ranges south of the Kings Highway.
Notes
Shrub to about 2 m high. Fruit fleshy. Branchlets hairy with fine hairs to sparsely hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.55–3 cm long, 2–6.5 mm wide, upper surface flat to slightly convex, lower surface strongly striate veined, margins entire to finely toothed towards the tips, tips pointed or blunt. Flowers white, tubular, the tube 2.1–5 mm long, hairy inside near the throat, with 5 hairy lobes each 1.3–2.5 mm long. Flowers hanging down, 3–8 together in spikes 7–15 mm long. Flowering: September–February, sometimes also July. Fruit pink to translucent red, sometimes yellowish, 3.5–4 mm long, oval to round.
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~gelidus (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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