Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Acrotriche leucocarpa

Flowering branch. Photographer Don Wood, South East Forests National Park

Flowering branches with flower buds. Photographer Jackie Miles

Shrubs. Photographer Jackie Miles

Common name

Tall acrotriche

Family

Ericaceae 

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, shrubland, and rocky areas. Ranges, tablelands, and ACT.

Notes

Shrub to 1.3 m high. Leaves with sharp tips. Fruit fleshy. Young branchlets hairy with fine hairs, soon hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, spreading to horizontal, 0.5–1.4 cm long, 1.5–3.5 mm wide, upper surface dull green, lower surface glaucous and waxy white. Flowers tubular, with 5 lobes. Tube greenish, often with a reddish tinge at the tips, 1.5–2.5 mm long; lobes 1.0–1.2 mm long with a fringe of hairs at the tips and with 5 tufts of hairs spreading across the throat. Flowers in clusters 2.5–5 mm long, of 3–6 flowers, on first year or previous seasons's wood. Flowers May–Dec.  Fruit pearly white, translucent.

Family was Epacridaceae.

Rare Vic.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

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