Common name: Native Cranberry
Lissanthe sapida R.Br. APNI* 
Description: Bushy shrub to 1 m, sometimes to 2.5 m high; branchlets bristly.
Leaves ± lanceolate to oblanceolate, 15.5–27.5 mm long, 2.2–4.2 mm wide; margins entire; upper surface flat to convex, lower surface 7- or 8-ribbed; petiole 1.3–2.7 mm long.
Flowers pendent, 1–4, widely spaced, creamy white; bracteoles 0.75–1.1 mm long. Sepals 1.6–1.9 mm long. Corolla tube cylindrical, 5.4–6.5 mm long; lobes erect at base, 2.1–3.9 mm long, glabrous. Ovary 5-locular; style 5.3–6.9 mm long, thicker towards base and pubescent.
Fruit globose to obovoid, c. 5.7 mm long, flat-topped, glabrous, succulent, red.
Flowering: July–September
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in open woodland and dry sclerophyll forest, on rocky sandstone ridges and hillsides on sandy soil; occasional, from Bargo to Coloul Ra. and Blackheath.
NSW subdivisions: CC, CT
Text by J. M. Powell, except for groups with contributors listed
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
ECOLOGY
Life History
Flowers Creamy white, March--September.
Fruit/seed Succulent fruit (drupe), 6.0 mm long, red, mature June--February.
Dispersal, establishment and growth Diaspore: fruit.
Habitat
Habitat Ridges, hillsides, rocky ledges, sometimes along creeks.
Altitude 0--800 m
Annual rainfall 900--1200 mm
Typical local abundance Rare--occasional.
Vegetation Eucalypt open-forest e.g. with Eucalyptus gummifera, E. eximia, Angophora costata, Syncarpia glomulifera, Allocasuarina torulosa.
Substrate Sandy soil on sandstone, or shale/sandstone transition, low nutrients.
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