Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Dracophyllum oceanicum
None
Ericaceae
On coastal cliffs or at the base of cliffs, and along streams. Coastal at Jervis Bay. Ranges inland from Jervis Bay.
Shrub to 2.5 m tall, or sprawling to prostrate. Hairless. Prominent scars from fallen leaves ringing the branches. Leaves alternating up the stems, crowded towards the ends of the branches, often overlapping, 9-23 cm long, 9–18 mm wide, flat to slightly concave in cross section; leathery, hairless, usually bronzed green, paler on the underside, tips blunt and frequently broken off, base sheathing. Flowers off-white, the lobes becoming brown with age, tubular, the tube 4–7 mm long, 2.5–3 mm in diameter, with 5 lobes each 1.5–2.5 mm long, spreading to turned back. Calyx greenish white to white, often with the tip tinged pink, frequently brown at the seeding stage. Flowers usually in many-flowered clusters. Flowering: Mainly August–December.
Family was Epacridaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Dracophyllum~oceanicum (accessed 12 January, 2021)
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