Melichrus procumbens (Jam Tarts)

[From PlantNet] Procumbent shrub, forming mats or ascending to 20 cm high.

Leaves upwardly appressed near end of branches, horizontal to reflexed on lower surface, 11–28 mm long, 1.2–4 mm wide, scabrous and with scattered longer hairs and deeply 10–14 ribbed on lower surface, margins often narrow-hyaline, with scattered short to long hairs; petiole to c. 0.5 mm.

Flowers on underside of branches, cream or pale green with pink-tinged lobes; bracteoles 3–5.5 mm long. Sepals 5–7.5 mm long, silky, greenish. Corolla tube saucer-shaped, 2–2.5 mm long; lobes 3–3.5 mm long, spreading, glabrous or with a few hairs inside.

Fruit depressed-globose, 2–4 mm long, green to red, smooth, glabrous.

 

Further reading:

https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/search/taxonomy?product=APC&tree.id=51209179&name=Melichrus+procumbens+%28Cav.%29+Druce&inc._scientific=&inc.scientific=on&inc._cultivar=&max=100&display=apc&search=true

Morphological and molecular evidence for major re-circumscriptions in and eight new species of Melichrus R.Br. (Ericaceae subfam. Epacridoideae) in eastern Australia. https://doi.org/10.1071/SB24031

Melichrus procumbens is listed in the following regions:

Hunter Region


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