Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Tetratheca rubioides
Common name
A pink bells
Family
Elaeocarpaceae
Where found
Dry forest and heath. Mainly in the Blue Mountains. Recent records from Burrinjuck Nature Reserve and Morton National Park.
Notes
Shrub, usually to 0.6 m high. Stems cylindrical, 4-angled and ridged, hairy. Most stem hairs short and conspicuously pointing backwards. Leaves usually in whorls of 5–7, rarely fewer on the lower parts of the branches, 0.3–1.5 mm long, about 1 mm wide, upper surface densely hairy, margins rolled down. Flowers deep lilac-pink, with 4 petals each 5–11 mm long. Flowers single, on stalks 4-12 mm long. Flowering: mostly October–November.
Hybridizes with Tetratheca thymifolia.
Family was Tremandraceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Tetratheca~rubioides (accessed 9 February, 2021)
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