Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Pentachondra pumila
Carpet heath
Ericaceae
Alpine heath, very low shrubland in alpine feldmark, herbfields, grassland, and rocky places. Kosciuszko National Park.
Prostrate or sprawling shrub to 0.15 m high, forming mats to 1 m or more diameter. Fruit fleshy. Branchlets rough with persistent leaf scars. Stems wiry, hairy, becoming hairless. Leaves crowded, 0.3–0.6 cm long, 0.5-2.5 mm wide,.leathery, bluntly keeled, concave to convex or flat, margins fringed, surfaces hairless, more or less shining, lower surface 5–7-veined. Flowers white, becoming brownish externally, tubular, the tube about 4–5.5 mm long, with 5 lobes about 2–2.5 mm long, hairy inside. Flowers single, more or less stalkless, near the ends of the branches. Flowering: December–Ma rch. Fruit red, 6–8 mm in diameter.
Family was Epacridaceae.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pentachondra~pumila (accessed 29 January, 2021)
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