Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Brachyloma daphnoides

Flowering stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Scottsdale Bush Heritage Reserve near Bredbo

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Nadgee State Forest south of Eden

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Scottsdale Bush Heritage Reserve near Bredbo, north of Cooma

Common name

Daphne heath

Family

Ericaceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, heath, and grassy areas. Widespread.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m high. Branchlets hairless to hairy or rough. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.35–1.5 cm long, 1.7–4.5 mm wide, upper surface glossy, lower surface dull and paler, sufaces hairless or hairy, tips blunt with a thickened tip. Flowers sweet scented, white to cream; tubular, the tube cylindrical or flask-shaped, 3–10 mm long; with 5 lobes 1.8–3 mm long, overlapping each other in bud. Flowers usually single, sometimes in clusters. Fruit green to yellow-brown. Flowering: mainly August–December.

Subspecies as described in PlantNET are not recognised by the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria. (accessed 30 April 2021).

Family was Epacridacae..

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=Brachyloma~daphnoides   (accessed 30 April 2021)