Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Lissanthe sapida
Common name
Native cranberry
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and rocky ridges. Ranges and Southern Highlands north of Bowral.
Notes
Shrub to 2.5 m high. Fruit fleshy. Leaves with sharp tips. Branchlets bristly. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1.55–2.75 mm long, 2.2–4.2 mm wide; lower surface 7- or 8-ribbed. Flowers creamy white, tubular, the tube cylindrical, 5.4–6.5 mm long; with 5 hairless lobes 2.1–3.9 mm long. Flowers hanging down, on relatively long stalks, in widely spaced 1–4 flowered clusters. Fruit red.
Family was Epacridaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Lissanthe~sapida (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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