Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Leucopogon amplexicaulis

Flowering stem (top). Leafy stem (bottom). Photographer Jackie Miles, Waterfall, south of Sydney

Leafy stem with flower buds. Photographer John Tann, Heathcote National Park south of Sydney

Common name

A beard-heath

Family

Ericaceae

Where found

Forest and woodland with a shrubby understorey on sandstone platforms and wet rock faces. Coastal north from Jervis Bay. Ranges north from west of Ulladulla.

Notes

Shrub to 0.9 m high, sometimes scrambling. Fruit fleshy. Branchlets hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.95–3.4 cm long, 4.5–20 mm wide, flat, lower surface hairy and with 3 central more or less parallel veins, base stem-clasping; margins curved down and fringed. Flowers white, tubular, the tube 1.2–1.9 mm long, bearded inside near the throat, with 5 lobes each 1.2–2.6 mm long. Flowers erect, 3–12 together in spikes up to 37 mm long. Flowering: July–October. Fruit laterally compressed.

Family was Epacridaceae.

PlantNET description:  https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leucopogon~amplexicaulis (accessed 22 January, 2021)