Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Stenanthera pinifolia
Common name
Pine heath
Family
Ericacaeae
Where found
Forest, woodland, heath, and rocky sites. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.
Notes
Shrub to 1 m high or sprawling. Branchlets hairy. Leaves crowded, usually 0.95–2.5 cm long, 0.3–1 mm wide; thick, rough, lower surface usually with only the prominent midrib visible; margins flat to rolled down, tips straight, fine, and mucronate. Flowers usually erect, red to yellow, usually yellow-green to green above, sometimes also shading to yellow at the base, tubular, the tube 9–20 mm long, with 5 lobes each 4–6.1 mm long, the lobes densely bearded inside, or sparsely bearded with a tuft of erect hairs near the lobe midpoint. Flowers single, but often appearing clustered at the bases of the branches. Flowering: March–November. Ripe fruit white, oval to globular, about 5–15 mm long.
Family was Epacridaceae.
Astroloma pinifolium in PlantNET.
PlantNET description (as Astroloma pinifolium): http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Astroloma~pinifolium (accessed 3 May 2021)
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