Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Leucopogon ericoides
Common name
Pink beard-heath
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, heath, and rocky areas. Widespread.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high. Leaf tips sharp. Branchlets wiry, hairy with short hairs to bristly. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.3–1.55 cm long, 0.7–2.5 mm wide, surfaces hairless, rough, or hairy with fine hairs, upper surface convex, margins curved to rolled down, tips blunt or pointed, with a mucro to about 1 mm long. Flowers white to pinkish, pink in bud, to 5.5 mm long, tubular, with 5 hairy lobes 1.4–2 mm long. Flowers erect, 1–11 in 3–9 mm long spikes. Flowering: July–October. Fruit oval, often curved, 2.4–5.7 mm long, prominently ridged, sparsely hairy, flat-topped, turning brown.
On the far South Coast it is taller, with sparser leaves than Leucopogon attenuatus and grows on sand. https://atlasoflife.naturemapr.org/Community/Sightings/Details/4234002 (Jackie Miles) (accessed 2 May 2021)
Styphelia ericoides in VICFLORA. (accessed 2 May 2021)
Family was Epacridaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leucopogon~ericoides (accessed 2 May 2021)
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