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 high and is more or less glabrous. Its leaves are linear to lance-shaped and sharply pointed, long, wide. The flowers are arranged in spikes of 6 to 10, long, scattered along old wood with bracteoles about long. The flowers are small, pinkish and fused at the base to form a cylindrical tube long, with lobes long. Flowering occurs from July to October and the fruit is a red, flattened spherical drupe about in diameter.[1] [2]
Acrotriche ramiflora was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae.[3] [4] The specific epithet (ramiflora) means 'branch-flowered', referring flowers appearing on old wood.[5]
This species of Acrotriche grows on coastal dunes, sandplains, granite boulders and breakaways in the Esperance Plains and Jarrah Forest bioregions of southern Western Australia.