Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Tetratheca ciliata
Common name
Pink Bells, Black-eyed Susan
Family
Elaeocarpaceae
Where found
Forest and heath. East and south of the Hume Highway and south from west of the ACT, and Kosciuszko National Park. Occasionallly coast, ranges, and the mountainous parts of the tablelands.
Notes
Shrub to about 1 m high. Stems densely hairy, occasionally hairless and covered in minute warts. Leaves alternating up the stems, opposite each other or in whorls of 3–5, 0.2–2 cm long, 1–15 mm wide, tips pointed or blunt, margins flat to rolled down, usually wavy, both surfaces hairless or with a few fine, erect hairs particularly near the margins.. Flowers deep lilac-pink, rarely white, with 4 petals each 6–18 mm long. Flower stalks and sepals with glandular hairs only. Sepals falling early. Flowers in 1–3-flowered clusters, on stalks 3-12 mm long. Flowers Aug.–Dec.
Family was Tremandraceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Tetratheca~ciliata (accessed 9 February, 2021)
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