Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Tetratheca ericifolia
Common name
A pink bells
Family
Elaeocarpaceae
Where found
Dry forest and heath. Coast, ranges, and tablelands. Uncommon.
Notes
Shrub, usually to 0.40 m high. Stems clyindrical, or more or less 4-angled below the leaf nodes, covered with pale brown bristles. Leaves in whorls of 4–6, occasionally a few alternating up the stems or opposite each other, 0.3–1 cm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, upper surface warty at least near the margins, often hairy, margins rolled down. Flowers with 4 deep lilac-pink petals each 5–12.5 mm long. Sepals with glandular hairs. Flower single, stalks hairless, and 10-25 mm long. Flowering: throughout the year but mostly July–December.
Family was Tremandraceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Tetratheca~ericifolia (accessed 7 February, 2021)
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