Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Acrotriche divaricata

Common name

None

Family

Ericaceae

Where found

Forest. Coast and ranges south to west of Mollymook.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m high. Leaves with sharp tips. Fruit more or less fleshy. Leaves alternating up the stems, horizontal, 0.6–1.6 cm long, 1.7–4.2 mm wide, dull, lower surface finely striate veined. Flowers green or cream. Flowers tubular, with 5 lobes, the tube 1–1.9 mm long; lobes 1–1.3 mm long, with a fringe of hairs at the tips, and with 5 tufts of hairs spreading across the throat. Flowers 3–5 per cluster. Flowering: July–September, rarely December  Fruit bright or dark red.

Family was Epacridaceae.

PlantNET description with photos:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acrotriche~divaricata  (accessed 2 January, 2021)