Lissanthe strigosa
Lissanthe strigosa, commonly known as peach heath, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae, and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a shrub with linear to lance-shaped leaves and white to pink, cylindrical flowers.
Description
Lissanthe strigosa is a much-branched shrub high, and often forms suckers, its branchlets covered with tiny bristles. The leaves are linear to lance-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long with three longitudinal ribs on the lower surface. The flowers are borne in racemes of 5 to 9 with bracteoles long at the base. The sepals are long and the petal are white or pink and joined at the base, forming a more or less glabrous tube long with lobes about long. The style is long and covered with soft hairs near its base. Flowering occurs from August to November and the fruit is a flattened spherical, capsule long, white and fleshy.Taxonomy
This species was first formally described in 1793 by James Edward Smith who gave it the name Styphelia strigosa in a A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland. In 1810, Robert Brown transferred the species to Lissanthe as L. strigosa in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae. The specific epithet means strigose.In 1994, Jocelyn Powell described two subspecies of L. strigosa in the journal Telopea, and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:Lissanthe strigosa R.Br. subsp. strigosa has leaves long and wide.Lissanthe strigosa subsp. subulata J.M.Powell has leaves long and wide.