Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Monotoca rotundifolia
Common name
Trailing monotoca
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Woodland, shrubland, and heath, at high altitude. Tablelands and ranges north east to south east of Cooma.
Notes
Shrub to 0.3 m high or prostrate. Branchlets covered with minute bristles. Leaves alternating up the stems, almost round, 0.18–0.6 cm long, 1.4–5.5 mm wide, upper surface roughened, lower surface glaucous and distinctly 3-ribbed, tips blunt, stalks 0.7–1.3 mm long, hairless, red. Flowers cream to whitish, 1.2–2.4 mm long, hairless, tubular, the tube broadly cylindrical to bell-shaped, with 5 lobes each 0.9–2.5 mm long, hairless. Bracts subtending the flowers persisting. Flowers erect, single, rarely in clusters of 2-3 flowers. Flowering: Jan.–Mar. Fruit unknown.
Family was Epacridaceae.
Endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.
Vulnerable Vic.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10542 (accessed 7 January, 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Monotoca~rotundifolia (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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