Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Monotoca ledifolia

Common name

None

Family

Ericaceae

Where found

Dry forest, mallee, woodland, shrubland, rocky areas, and along streams. Ranges north from Budawang National Park.

Notes

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)