Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Styphelia adscendens
Common name
Golden Heath
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, heath, and shrubland, sometimes in rocky areas. Ranges and tablelands between Nerriga and the Kings Highway. Coast, ranges, and tablelands south of Bombala and Eden. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Shrub to about 0.6 m high, sprawling to prostrate. Fruit dry or slightly fleshy. Branchlets hairy with fine hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5–3.2 cm long, 1.8–6 mm wide, tips mucronate, margins membranous, finely toothed and flat to slightly curved down, surfaces hairless, upper surface flat or concave. Flowers cream, pale yellow-green or occasionally pink or red; tubular, the tube 12.5–20 mm long, with 5 tightly rolled lobes. Anthers extending well beyond the flower tube. Flowers pointing up, single or two together. Flowering: June–December.
Family was Epacridaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Styphelia~adscendens (accessed 7 February, 2021)
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