Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Monotoca ledifolia
None
Ericaceae
Dry forest, mallee, woodland, shrubland, rocky areas, and along streams. Ranges north from Budawang National Park.
Shrub, usually to 0.5 m high. Fruit somewhat fleshy. Branchlets hairless or finely bristly. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.2–1 cm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, margins entire; surfaces hairless, upper surface a different colour from lower surface, upper surface flat to slightly convex, lower surface strongly 3-ribbed, stalks 0.7–1.9 mm long, hairless, pink to purplish. Flowers bisexual or female, white, hairless, tubular, the tube broadly cylindrical, 0.5–0.8 mm long, with 5 lobes each about 1.2 mm long, hairless. Bracts subtending the flowers persisting. Flowers 1 or 2 together. Flowering: summer. Fruit oblong, about 2.8 mm long, ribbed, hairless.
Family was Epacridaceae.
PlantNET description with line drawings and photo of a dried specimen: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Monotoca~ledifolia (accessed 24 January, 2021)
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