Everistia vacciniifolia (F.Muell.) S.T.Reynolds & R.J.F.Hend. APNI* Synonyms: Canthium vacciniifolium F.Muell. APNI*
Description: Shrubs or small trees 1–7 m high, erect, scandent or prostrate; bark grey or creamy grey, smooth; trunk straight with branches spreading uniplanar or divaricately branched; branchlets greyish-brown with white streaks, glabrous or hairy, spinose distally especially in young growth, with few scattered leaves or occasionally leaf-less and spinescent; spines straight and unbranched or bifurcate.
Petioles 0.5–2.0 mm long; stipules comparatively small, ovate, abruptly acuminate with a short folded lobe at apex. Leaves elliptic, obovate or suborbicular, 3.5–17 mm long, 3.5–10 mm wide; base obtuse, more or less truncate or acute; apex obtuse or retuse; margins flat or recurved; upper surface shiny; lower surface dull; midrib slender, lateral nerves very fine, usually visible on underside, or nerves absent.
Peduncles and pedicels 0.5–5 mm long; bracts minute, ovate. Flower buds 4–7 (–9) mm long, slender, sometimes fleshy, with apex obtuse and apiculate or acuminate: calyx 1.0–1.25 mm long, with 4 (5) minute ovate lobes; corolla yellow, 5–9 mm long; tube slender; lobes erect or recurved, usually with a long recurved acumen at apex; stamens and style exserted.
Fruit 4–7 mm long, 4–7 mm wide, smooth, usually topped by remnants of calyx.
Distribution and occurrence:
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
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