Citation: Lobopogon ericoides Schldl., Linnaea 20:620 (1847).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Brush heath.

Description:
Shrub 20-90 cm high; stems grey-brown; leaves 4-18 mm long, 0.7-1.6 mm wide, linear, elliptic to obovate, thick, flat to slightly convex, acute, tip 0.4-1.3 mm long, margins slightly recurved, denticulate-ciliolate; both surfaces glabrous, or hispid on the midrib below, discolorous, glaucous or paler below; petiole 0.7-1.1 mm long.

Flowers pink; peduncle 1.2-2 mm long, clothed with bracts; bracts and bracteoles pink or pale-green, broadly ovate to orbicular, obtuse, glabrous or ciliolate on the margins; bracts 4-6 or more, from 0.5-1.5 x 0.6-1.5 mm to 1.5-2.2 x 1.2-1.6 mm; bracteoles 1.2-3 x 1.4-2.6 mm; sepals pink, ovate, 2.6-4.7 x 1.5-2.6 mm, almost obtuse, margins glabrous or ciliolate; corolla tube 3-4.5 mm long, campanulate to bulbous, constricted immediately below the lobes, with 5 fringed scales reflexed into the tube, inflated below the constriction, lobes 1.9-2.5 mm long, centrally thickened and papillose, with bases rounded or sagittate, overlapping; anthers c. 1 mm long, cohering somewhat to form a ring, filaments spathulate, 0.3-1.5 x 0.7-0.9 mm; ovary 5-celled, l-l.3 mm high and wide, glabrous; style 1.6-2.9 mm long; nectary 0.4-0.6 mm high.

Fruit 3.2-4.8 x 3.7-4.8 (rarely 6.6) mm, stone ribbed.

Published illustration: Cochrane et al. (1968) Flowers and plants of Victoria, fig. 82.

Conservation status: native Flowering time: No flowering time is available

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available