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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.

Habit
Photo Tanja Lenz

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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.


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

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.

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