Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Leucopogon parviflorus

Flowering branch. Photographer Jackie Miles

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Warden Head, Ulladulla

Fruit and leaves. Photographer Jackie Miles

Shrub. Photographer Jackie Miles

Common name

Coastal Beard-heath, Native Currant

Family

Ericaceae

Where found

Shrubland, heath, dunes, and rocky slopes. Coastal. Occasionally in the ranges.

Notes

Shrub or tree to about 5 m high. Fruit fleshy. Branchlets hairy with fine hairs to sparsely hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1.1–3.5 cm long, 2.4–7.5 mm wide, upper surface usually slightly convex or flat, lower surface striate veined, margins more or less curved down, tips broadly pointed, thickened and channelled, sometimes curved down. Flowers white, 3.5–5 mm long. tubular, hairy with fine hairs inside near the throat, with 5 lobes each 2–6 mm long. Flowers erect, 6–13 together in densely clustered spikes 10–32 mm long. Flowering: throughout the year. Fruit white, 4.3–5 mm long, more or less round.

Family was Epacridaceae.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leucopogon~parviflorus (accessed 22 January, 2021)