Brachyloma daphnoides explained

Brachyloma daphnoides, commonly known as daphne heath, is a flowering plant in the family Ericaceae. It is a small upright shrub with dull grey-green leaves and white tubular flowers.

Description

Brachyloma daphnoides is a small, upright shrub that usually grows to a height of 0.4and high and branches covered in long, upright, stiff hairs. The dull grey-green leaves may be egg-shaped, obovate, elliptic, or more or less circular, flattish, tightly overlap along the stems, 4to long, 1.7to wide. The upper surface is glossy green, underneath paler, smooth or hairy, petiole long, and rounded or pointed at the apex. The cream-white flowers are borne in leaf axils, scented, sometimes grouped, corolla tubular, long with recurved lobes long. Flowering occurs from June to November and the fruit is a rounded, ridged, slightly flattened yellowish-brown berry about in diameter and long.[1]

Taxonomy and naming

Brachyloma daphnoides was first formally described 1868 by James Edward Smith and the description was published in Flora Australiensis.[2] [3] The specific epithet (daphnoides) means like "daphne".[4]

Distribution and habitat

Daphne heath grows mostly on rocky sites in woodland and forests in South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland.[1] [5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Brachyloma daphnoides (Sm.) Benth.. 23 August 2011. PlantNET - New South Wales Flora Online. Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney Australia.
  2. Web site: Brachyloma daphnoides . Australian Plant Name Index . 12 January 2022.
  3. Book: Bentham . George . Flora Australiensis . 1868 .
  4. Book: Sharr . Francis Aubi . George . Alex . Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings . 2019 . Four Gables Press . Kardinya, WA . 9780958034180 . 178 . 3rd.
  5. Web site: Census of South Australian Vascular Plants Edition 5.00. Botanic Gardens of Adelaide & State Herbarium. 2005.