Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Tetratheca neglecta
Common name
A pink bells
Family
Elaeocarpaceae
Where found
Dry forest and heath. Coast and ranges north of Berry. One record from the Budawang Range, Morton National Park.
Notes
Shrub usually to 0.6 m high. Stems cylindrical, 4-angled, or ridged, hairy, the hairs usually both short and long. Leaves in whorls of 4–6, rarely fewer at the bases of the stems, 0.3–1.5 cm long, usually less than 1 mm wide, hairless or glandular-hairy, margins rolled down and often covering the midrib. Flowers deep lilac-pink, with 4 petals each 5–10 mm long. Ovary hairy with minute hairs, or hairless. Flowers single, on stalks 6-15 mm long. Flowering: mostly August–November.
Family was Tremandraceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Tetratheca~neglecta (accessed 9 February, 2021)
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