Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Leucopogon rufus
Common name
A beard-heath
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Mallee, heath, and rocky areas. Western Slopes.
Notes
Shrub usually to 0.6 m high. Leaves with long fine sharp points. Fruit fleshy. Branchlets hairless to hairy with fine hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.6–2.5 cm long, 2–5 mm wide, concave to rarely flat, paler below, hairless to hairy; margins entire or with minute teeth, tips with a stiff bristle. Flowers white, soon reddening on drying, 5.3–6.6 mm long, tubular, densely bearded inside near the throat, with 5 hairy lobes shorter than the tube. Flowers 2–5 together, in spikes 6–9 mm long. Flowers Nov – March. Fruit about 6 mm long, oval.
Styphelia rufa in VICFLORA. (accessed 26 February, 2021)
Family was Epacridaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leucopogon~rufus (accessed 26 February, 2021)
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