Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Woollsia pungens
Common name
None
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Dry forest, heath, and dunes. Coast and ranges, north of Pigeon House Mtn west of Ulladulla.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high. Leaf tips sharp. Greyish or whitish hairy. Leaves crowded, 0.35–1.2 cm long, 1.5–6 mm wide, tips long-pointed and with a mucro 2–4 mm long, bases rounded to cordate. Flowers sweetly scented; white to dark pink or purplish, 8–13 mm in diameter, tubular, the tube slender, 7–14 mm long; with 5 spreading lobes each 4–5 mm long. Flowers single at the bases of the leaves, forming long leafy clusters. Flowers all year.
Family was Epacridaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Woollsia~pungens (accessed 12 February, 2021)
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