Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acrothamnus montanus
Common name
Snow Beard-Heath
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Heath, grassland, and rocky slopes. Above 1800 m altitude. Kosciuszko National Park.
Notes
Shrub to 0.6 m high, or sprawling and rooting towards the base. Fruit fleshy. Branchlets rough with minute projections. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.3–0.8 cm long, 1–2.3 mm wide, hairless, surfaces different colours, lower surface often glaucous and with 3 central more or less parallel veins, margins entire and finely toothed near the tips. Flowers erect, generally unisexual, white, tubular, the tube 1–1.85 mm long, hairless, or sometimes warty on the inner face, with 5 lobes 1.25–1.6 mm long. Flowering: January–March. Flowers in spikes of 3–8 flowers. Fruit red when ripe.
Some populations near the tree line appear to show characteristics intemediate between Acrothamnus hookeri and Acrothamnus montanus.
Family was Epacridaceae.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acrothamnus~montanus (accessed 2 January, 2021)
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