Acrotriche ramiflora
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| Acrotriche ramiflora | |
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| In Fitzgerald River National Park | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Acrotriche |
| Species: | A. ramiflora |
| Binomial name | |
| Acrotriche ramiflora | |
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| Occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium | |
Acrotriche ramiflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with linear to lance-shaped leaves and small pinkish, tube-shaped flowers and red, flattened spherical drupes.
Acrotriche ramiflora is an erect or spreading, divaricately branched shrub that typically grows to up 0.5–1 m (1 ft 8 in – 3 ft 3 in) high and is more or less glabrous. Its leaves are linear to lance-shaped and sharply pointed, 6–8 mm (0.24–0.31 in) long, 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) wide. The flowers are arranged in spikes of 6 to 10, 8–10 mm (0.31–0.39 in) long, scattered along old wood with bracteoles about 1.5 mm (0.059 in) long. The flowers are small, pinkish and fused at the base to form a cylindrical tube 2.5 mm (0.098 in) long, with lobes 1.5 mm (0.059 in) long. Flowering occurs from July to October and the fruit is a red, flattened spherical drupe about 4 mm (0.16 in) in diameter.[2][3][4]