Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Leucopogon setiger
Common name
A beard-heath
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Forest, mallee, heath, and moist places, often on sandstone. Coast and ranges.
Notes
Shrub to 1.5 m high. Leaf tips sharp. Branchlets rough. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.7–1.2 cm long, 1.4–4 mm wide, usually hairless, flat to convex on the upper surface, lower surface finely striate veined, margins curved down or flat, entire or with minute teeth towards the tips. Flowers white, tubular, the tube 2.3–3 mm long, with 5 hairy lobes each 2.6–4 mm long. Flowers spreading to hanging down, on stalks 1–9.5 mm long, 1-4 together, in 10–16 mm long spikes. Flowering: July–October. Fruit initially fleshy, dry when fully ripe, yellow to green, oval, about 4.2 mm long.
Family was Epacridaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leucopogon~setiger (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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