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Acrotriche serrulata (Honey-pots)

Acrotriche serrulata (Honey-pots)

Dense, prostrate to decumbent shrub to about. 30 cm high; branchlets finely pubescent. Leaves linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 3.5–11 mm long, 0.5–1.7(–2.5) mm wide, mucronate, flat, sparsely pubescent to pilose on both surfaces (at least when young), lower surface with 3–5(–7) unbranched subparallel veins separated by shallow glaucous grooves; margins plane to slightly recurved, scabrous to pilose.

Flowers in 5–12-flowered spikes on old wood (often below leafy region); corolla sometimes maroon-tinged; tube transluscent, Fruit depressed-globose, flat-topped, 2.5–3.5 mm long, greyish-green, indumentum persisting.

 

Flowers mainly Jun - Nov

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Uploaded on February 13, 2016
Taken on November 17, 2010