Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Leucopogon muticus
Common name
Blunt beard-heath
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Dry forest, heath, and exposed situations. Tablelands and ranges mainly north from west of Nowra. Coastal mainly in the Sydeny region and north.
Notes
Shrub to about 1.5 m high. Fruit fleshy. Branchlets hairy with minute hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.96–2.3 cm long, 2–5.8 mm wide; thin, more or less flat, with 3–5 parallel veins, margins often slightly curved down, entire. Flowers scented, white, tubular, the tube 2.0–2.45 mm long, with 5 hairy lobes each 1.4–2.0 mm long. Flowers erect, 4–10 together in spikes to 9 mm long. Flowering: September–October. Fruit black, oval, 3.2–4.5 mm long, 3–5-ridged and scarcely bristly.
Family was Epacridaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leucopogon~muticus (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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