Trochocarpa montana
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| Trochocarpa montana | |
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| In the Australian National Botanic Gardens | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Trochocarpa |
| Species: | T. montana |
| Binomial name | |
| Trochocarpa montana | |
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Trochocarpa montana, commonly known as mountain tree-heath,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to high altitude places in New South Wales. It is a much-branched shrub with narrowly egg-shaped, narrowly elliptical to broadly egg-shaped leaves, racemes of creamy-brown, tube-shaped flowers, and purple to black drupes.
Trochocarpa montana is a much-branched shrub that typically grows to a height of 2–10 m (6 ft 7 in – 32 ft 10 in) and has fawn to grey branchlets. Its leaves are arranged alternately along the stems, narrowly egg-shaped, narrowly elliptical to broadly egg-shaped, 10.5–50 mm (0.41–1.97 in) long and 4–26 mm (0.16–1.02 in) wide on a petiole 1.5–4.5 mm (0.059–0.177 in) long. The leaves are glossy green on the upper surface and paler below, with 5 to 7 veins visible, especially on the lower surface. The flowers are arranged in racemes on the ends of branches and in leaf axils, each flower on a pedicel 0.2–0.5 mm (0.0079–0.0197 in) long with bracts and bracteoles 1.1–1.6 mm (0.043–0.063 in) long and 1.0–1.1 mm (0.039–0.043 in) wide. The sepals are egg-shaped to elliptic, 1.2–2.0 mm (0.047–0.079 in) long and 0.6–1.1 mm (0.024–0.043 in) wide. The petals are creamy-brown, 2.8–3.5 mm (0.11–0.14 in) long and joined at the base to form a tube 1.6–2.1 mm (0.063–0.083 in) long with lobes 1.2–1.6 mm (0.047–0.063 in) long.[3][2][4]
