Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Micrantheum ericoides

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Bomaderry Creek Regional Reserve near Nowra

Fruiting stems with a few flowers. Photographer Jackie Miles, near Ulladulla

Common name

A heath-myrtle

Family

Where found

Dry forest and heath. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands, mainly north from Jervis Bay, rarely farther south.

Notes

Shrub to 0.7 m high. Branches hairy. Leaves in clusters of 3, the clusters alternating up the stems, 0.4–1 cm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, tips more or less pointed. Male and female flowers on the same plant. Flowers with 4 or 6 'petals' each 1.5 mm long. Male flowers with 3 stamens. Flowers single or in pairs. Flowering: spring.

Family was Euphorbiaceae.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Micrantheum~ericoides  (accessed 23 January, 2021)