Everistia vacciniifolia var. nervosa S.T.Reynolds & R.J.F.Hend. APNI* Description: Small trees or large shrubs, usually with a straight and slender trunk and spreading layered branching; branchlets more or less borne in the same plane as the main branches or occasionally suberect with divariate branches.
Leaves usually widely spaced on branchlets; laminas flat, glabrous, coriaceous, thin, slightly shiny on the upper surface; midrib and nerves usually visible on the under surface; lateral nerves in 1 or 2 pairs, very slender, slightly arching.
Peduncles and pedicels filiform; flower buds fragile, 7.5–9.0 mm long, with a slender tube and acuminate lobes at apex; corolla tube slender, 3.5–5.0 mm long, acuminate with a long recurved acumen at apex; flowers yellow.
Fruit 4–7 mm long, 4–7 mm wide, smooth, usually topped by remnants of the calyx.
Distribution and occurrence: Central and southeastern Queensland to Hunter River, NSW. Usually in dry rainforests, on reddish coloured soils; along creeks and rivers and on slopes.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by Louisa Murray
Taxon concept: Austrobaileya 5(2):353-361(1999) S.T.Reynolds & R.J.F.Henderson
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