Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Leucopogon rodwayi

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Booderee National Park, Jervis Bay Territory

Common name

A beard-heath

Family

Ericaceae

Where found

Forest, heath, and rocky areas. Coastal at and around Jervis Bay.

Notes

Shrub to 0.8 m high. Leaves with sharp points. Fruit fleshy. Branchlets sparsely hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.38–1.05 cm long, 0.9–1.9 mm wide, upper surface flat to convex, lower surface striate veined, margins curved down and sparsely toothed to fringed. Flowers white, tubular, the tube 0.6–0.8 mm long, hairless, with 5 hairy lobes each 0.6–0.9 mm long. Flowers hanging down, 6–15 together in spikes up to 8 mm long. Flowering: February–October. Fruit oval, about 2.3 mm long, smooth.

Family was Epacridaceae.

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