Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Leucopogon esquamatus
Common name
Swamp Beard-heath
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Dry forest, heath, rocky areas, and moist and swampy sites. Coast and ranges north from the Kings Highway. Coastal south of Eden. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Shrub to 1 m high. Leaf tips with sharp points. Branchlets hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.7–2.2 cm long, 2–4 mm wide; more or less flat, margins with minute teeth towards the tips; surfaces hairless, lower surface faintly striate, tips gradually tapering to a point, terminated by a mucro about 1 mm long. Flowers white, about 4 mm long, tubular, with 5 hairy lobes each 2.3–2.9 mm long. Flowers erect, single or often 2 together. Flowering: August–September. Fruit brown, cylindrical, 3.8–4.5 mm long, hairless.
Styphelia esquamata in VICFLORA. (accessed 26 February 2021)
Rare Vic.
Family was Epacridaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leucopogon~esquamatus (accessed 26 February 2021)
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