Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Leucopogon neo-anglicus
Common name
A beard-heath
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Dry forest, heath, and shrubland, in rocky places. Tablelands. Ranges north of the Kings Highway. Coastal north from the Nowra district.
Notes
Shrub to 0.8 m high. Leaf tips sharp. Fruit fleshy. Branchlets rough. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5–1.03 cm long, 2–5 mm wide, thin, lower surface slightly concave and with 3 central parallel veins and other veins prominently diverging, margins translucent, with minute teeth. Flowers tubular, the tube white, pink or red, 5–8 mm long, hairy inside, with 5 white hairy lobes each 3.7–4.5 mm long. Flowers erect, single. Flowering: March–October. Fruit reddish brown to grey-brown, about 3.2 mm long, oval.
Family was Epacridaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leucopogon~neoanglicus (accessed 19 April 2021)
This identification key and fact sheets are available as a free mobile application:
