Brachyloma daphnoides
(Sm.) Benth. Daphne HeathErect shrub to c.1(–2) m high; branchlets glabrous to puberulent. Leaves ascending to spreading, ovate to obovate, or almost orbicular, 3.5–11 mm long, 1.7–4.5 mm wide, glabrous, ± flat, dull green to grey-green, lower surface usually slightly paler; apex obtuse; margins plane, entire, rarely minutely serrulate. Flowers solitary, white, sweet-scented; bracteoles and sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate, obtuse to subacute; bracteoles 1–2 mm long, sepals 1.4–2.5 mm long; corolla tube ± cylindric, 4–6 mm long, glabrous inside except for 5 tufts of reflexed hairs between anthers; lobes acute to acuminate, 1.8–3 mm long, erect to recurved, inner surface papillose; anthers ± cohering, enclosed within corolla tube; ovary 5-locular, style glabrous to densely papillose-puberulent, 1.6–3.5 mm long. Flowers mainly Sep.–Dec.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, VVP, VRiv, GipP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, Strz, MonT, VAlp. Also SA, Qld, NSW. Common and widespread in drier heathland, mallee and heathy woodland or open-forest on sandy or rocky sites.
Albrecht, D.E. (1996). Epacridaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 464–509. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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