Family | ERICACEAE |
Genus species | Androstoma verticillatum (Hook.f.) Quinn |
Bibliography | Austral. Syst. Bot. 18: 450 (2005) |
Native Range | Tasmania |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | grassland and thickets |
Description | leaves 4-6mm long, narrowly linear, margins revolute, coriaceous, in false whorls at apex of new shoots, flowers 5-6mm across in small clusters at apex of branchlets |
Size | 20-30cm |
Color | |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | mesic, slightly humous, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, rich, drained soil, semi-shade |
Propagation | seed when ripe or in spring cuttings in late summer; layering in spring and fall |
Synonyms | Leucopogon milliganii (F.Muell.) Rodway Pentachondra verticillata Hook.f. Styphelia milliganii F.Muell. Trochocarpa verticillata (Hook.f.) F.Muell. |
Territory | 5 Australasia 50 Australia (TAS Tasmania) |