Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Leucopogon appressus

Flowering stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering branches. Photographer Don Wood, west of Nowra

Flowering stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

A beard-heath

Family

Ericaceae

Where found

Forest and heath. Ranges north of the King's Highway. Sydney area and north.

Notes

Shrub to 0.80 m high. Branchlets rigid and wiry, hairy to appressed bristly. Leaves alternating up the stems, erect, 0.41–1.5 cm long, 1–2.6 mm wide, margins with minute teeth to fringed; upper surface concave and often twisting somewhat, lower surface shallowly ribbed and grooved, tips tapering to a translucent point. Flowers white, tubular, the tube 1.1–1.75 mm long, with 5 hairy lobes each 1.1–1.5 mm long. Flowers erect, often inconspicuous, usually 1 or 2 together, often appearing clustered. Flowering: Summer-Autumn. Fruit oval to oval, about 1.6 mm long.

Family was Epacridaceae.

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