Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Leucopogon pilifer

Flowering branches. Photographer Don Wood, SE Forests National Park

Common name

Thready beard-heath

Family

Ericaceae

Where found

Heath, shrubland, grassland, and moist to boggy sites. Mainly ranges and tablelands.

Notes

Shrub, sprawling to prostrate, often mat-forming, branches to about 0.3 m long. Branchlets hairy, soon becoming hairless. Leaves alternating along the stems, 0.3–-0.73 cm long, 0.7–1.3 mm wide; more or less flat, with 3–5 more or less parallel veins on the lower surface, margins with long silky hairs at least towards the tips, tips pointed, straight. Flowers white, tubular, the tube 0.9–2 mm long, hairy inside near the throat, with 5 hairy lobes each about 1 mm or more long. Flowers erect, 4–9 together, in spikes 3–6 mm long. Flowering: October–February. Fruit oblong to oval, 1.5–2 mm long, slightly ridged.

Rare Vic.

Family was Epacridaceae.

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