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Acrotriche serrulata R.Br.
Family Ericaceae
Subfamily Epacridoideae
Common name: Honeypots

Acrotriche serrulata R.Br. APNI*

Synonyms: Styphelia serrulata Labill. APNI*

Description: Procumbent shrub forming mats to 1 m diam.; branches ascending to 15–60 cm high.

Leaves usually suberect to spreading, lax, lanceolate to linear, 3.5–13 mm long, 0.5–2 mm wide; margins ciliate to toothed; lamina whitish, prominently 3–5-veined but shallowly grooved on lower surface; petiole 0.3–0.7 mm long.

Flowers 5–10 per spike, pale green or whitish; bracteoles usually 1–1.5 mm long. Sepals 1.4–2.8 mm long. Corolla tube 4–4.7 mm long; lobes 1.5–2 mm long. Ovary 5–7-locular.

Fruit depressed-globose, 3–4.5 mm diam., shortly hispid, greyish green.


Habit
Photo Tanja Lenz

Herbarium
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Type
Specimen

Flowering: August–September

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in sclerophyll forest on sandy soil and loam over sandstone, basalt or granite, south from Nundle area.
NSW subdivisions: SC, NT, CT, ST, CWS
Other Australian states: Vic. Tas. S.A.
AVH map***

Text by J. M. Powell, except for groups with contributors listed
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)


ECOLOGY

Life History
Flowers Pale green or whitish, August--September.

Fruit/seed Flat-topped succulent fruit (drupe), 4.5 mm diam., January.

Dispersal, establishment and growth Diaspore: fruit.


Habitat
Habitat Woodland and grassland.

Altitude 800--1300 m                                      Annual rainfall 800--1000 mm

Typical local abundance Rare--occasional.

Vegetation Eucalypt woodland e.g. with Eucalyptus dives, E. dalrympleana.

Substrate Sandy loams, low nutrients.


APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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