Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Leucopogon affinis
Common name
A beard-heath
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Forest and woodland. Widspread, but not the Western Slopes.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m high. Fruit fleshy. Branchlets hairless or shaggy to silky. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.6–5 cm long, 1–10 mm wide; flat to convex on the upper surface, lower surface with faint longitudinal ridges, margins entire or toothed towards the tips, tips pointed. Flowers white, 2-4 mm long, tubular, densely bearded near the throat inside, with 5 lobes each 1.2–2.25 mm long. Flowers erect, 2–16 together in spikes 3–40 mm long. Fruit red, oval to oval, 2.1–3.3 mm long. Flowering: throughout the year except January.
Leucopogon lanceolatus and varieties in PlantNET.
Family was Epacridaceae.
PlantNET description (as Leucopogon lanceolatus): http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leucopogon~lanceolatus (accessed 2 May 2021)
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