Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acrothamnus maccraei
Common name
Sub-alpine beard-heath
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Wet forest and shrubland. Western Slopes west of the ACT. Kosciuszko National Park. Two sightings in Deua National Park.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m high. Fruit fleshy. Branchlets hairy with simple hairs, becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.4–0.8 cm long, 2–4 mm wide, hairless, lower surface with 3 central more or less parallel veins, margins entire or fringed with coarse hairs towards the tips. Flowers erect, white, 3-4 mm long, tubular, the tube sparsely hairy to bearded within (may need a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), with 5 lobes each 1.7–2.1 mm long. Flowers pointing up, in spikes of 2–5 flowers. Flowers spring. Fruit bright red when ripe.
Family was Epacridaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acrothamnus~maccraei (accessed 2 January, 2021)
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