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Description: Erect bushy shrub to 100 cm, rarely to 150 cm high; stems with prominently ridged leaf scars; branchlets hispid.

Leaves usually erect, elliptic or ± ovate, 5–12 mm long, 1.5–3 mm wide, apex acuminate, base cuneate, margins minutely toothed; lamina thick, ± flat; petiole 0–0.5 mm.

Flowers crowded at end of branches to form leafy heads, 6–8 mm diam., white; peduncle 1–1.5 mm long; bracts acute. Sepals 4.5–5.5 mm long. Corolla tube 5–6 mm long; lobes 3–3.5 mm long. Anthers not exserted.

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Type
Specimen

Flowering: throughout year, mainly September–January

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in swamps, bogs and wet heath on sandstone and granite up to c. 1700 m alt.; south from Sydney and the Blue Mtns.
NSW subdivisions: CC, SC, CT, ST
Other Australian states: Vic. Tas.


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Text by J. M. Powell, except for groups with contributors listed
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)

Life History

Vegetative spread No.

Longevity More than 60 years (D. Keith pers. comm.).

Primary juvenile period 5 years (Keith 1996).

Flowers White, June--December, peak October.

Fruit/seed Capsule, 3 mm long.

Dispersal, establishment and growth Diaspore: seed.

Fire response Resprouts, secondary juvenile period 1 year (Keith 1996).

Habitat

Habitat Swamps, bogs and wet heath.

Altitude 0--1100 m Annual rainfall 900--1600 mm

Typical local abundance Frequent.

Vegetation Sedge and shrub swamps e.g. with Viminaria juncea, Gleichenia dicarpa, Empodisma minus, Banksia paludosa, Leptospermum lanigerum, Baeckea utilis, Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus.

Substrate Peaty to sandy soils on sandstone, quartzite, low nutrients, permanently moist.

Exposure ? full sun.

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