Citation: Smith, Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 260:t. 8 (1794).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Pink swamp-heath.

Description:
Erect shrub to 200 cm high; young branches red-brown; older stems red, somewhat grooved; leaves thin, concave,. 3-10 mm long, 2-6 mm wide, stem-clasping over the lower 2-8 ram, with blade ovate to narrow-ovate, apex acuminate, tip mucronate to 0.6 mm long, venation inconspicuous, margins straight, entire, more or less scarious, ciliolate where stem-clasping.

Flowers usually 1-6 (rarely to 20), in spikes 7-20 mm long, forming clusters to 80 x 10-30 mm; peduncle long, clothed in bracts; bracts and bracteoles 5-9, 2.5-4 x 0.9-2 mm, closely surrounding the flower; sepals lanceolate to narrow-triangular, 4.2-5.3 x 0.9-1.2 mm, acute, somewhat scarious, erect to spreading; corolla tube 0.7-1.3 mm long, very broad to saucer-shaped, lobes narrow-triangular, 3.2-5 mm long, with a median ridge on the upper third, erect to spreading; anthers 1.5-1.8 mm long, forming a tube around the style, usually papillose-hairy over the upper half; ovary 1.1-1.8 x 1-1.4 mm, glabrous, with 4-10 ovules per cell; style 2.2-2.3 mm long, minutely papillose, not exserted past the anthers, stigma small, lobed.

Fruit 2.2-2.5 x 1.7-1.8 mm.

Distribution:  Occurs in Melaleuca and Leptospermum swamps or in swampy heathlands on peat or sandy soils. S.Aust.: SL, KI, SE.   N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Aug. — Feb., May; fruit: Dec.

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

Biology: No text

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