Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Sprengelia incarnata

Common name

Pink swamp heath

Family

Ericaceae

Where found

Swampy shrubland and wet heath and sedgeland. Coast and ranges.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m high, hairless. Stems smooth. Leaves alternating up the stems, overlapping each other, 0.3–2 cm long, 2–10 mm wide, concave; tips gradually tapering to a point, and with a mucro to 0.7 mm long, margins entire, or fringed on the stem-clasping part of the leaf, bases completely sheathing the stems. Flowers pink, purplish, or white, tubular, the tube 0.5–1.3 mm long, with 5 spreading lobes each 3–5 mm long. Flowers in clusters of 3–20, often appearing to form many-flowered clusters. Flowers most of the year.

Family was Epacridaceae. 

Protected NSW.  

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Sprengelia~incarnata (accessed 7 February, 2021)