Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Dracophyllum secundum
Common name
None
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Sandstone rock ledges and wet cliff faces. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands, north from Pigeon House (Mtn) west of Ulladulla.
Notes
Shrub to 1.5 m high or sprawling. Prominent scars from fallen leaves ringing the branches. Leaves alternating up the stems, crowded towards the ends of the branches, often overlapping, spreading, usually 5–14 cm long, 5–12 mm wide, hairless, tips gradually tapering to a point, base broadly sheathing; margins entire or finely toothed. Flowers white to pink or reddish, tubular, the tube 5–8 mm long; with 5 lobes each 1.5–2 mm long, erect or spreading. Flowers in narrow clusters 5–15 cm long, mostly on one side of the stem. 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~secundum (accessed 12 January, 2021)
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