Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Dracophyllum oceanicum
Common name
None
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
On coastal cliffs or at the base of cliffs, and along streams. Coastal at Jervis Bay. Ranges inland from Jervis Bay.
Notes
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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