Brachyloma ericoides
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| Brachyloma ericoides | |
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| In Cox Scrub Conservation Park | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Brachyloma |
| Species: | B. ericoides |
| Binomial name | |
| Brachyloma ericoides | |
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Brachyloma ericoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-east of continental Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with linear to narrowly elliptic leaves and usually pink, tube-shaped flowers.
Brachyloma ericoides is an erect or spreading shrub that usually grows to 20–60 cm (7.9–23.6 in) high and has softly-hairy branchlets. The leaves are linear to narrowly elliptic, 4–13 mm (0.16–0.51 in) long and 0.7–1.5 mm (0.028–0.059 in) wide on a petiole 0.7–1.1 mm (0.028–0.043 in) long. The leaves are more or less glabrous and the lower surface is paler than the upper surface. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils with broadly egg-shaped to round bracts 6–17 mm (0.24–0.67 in) long and bracteoles 1.3–3 mm (0.051–0.118 in) long at the base. The sepals are egg-shaped, 2.8–4.3 mm (0.11–0.17 in) long and the petals are pink, sometimes white, and joined to form a tube 3.5–5 mm (0.14–0.20 in) long with lobes 2.0–2.7 mm (0.079–0.106 in) long. Flowering occurs between April and November, and the fruit is a more or less spherical drupe 3.5–5 mm (0.14–0.20 in) long.[2][3][4]