Tetratheca bauerifolia
Tetratheca bauerifolia, commonly known as heath pink-bells, is a flowering plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a small compact shrub with pink-mauve flowers.
Description
Tetratheca bauerifolia is a small shrub to high with angled or needle-shaped stems covered with bristly, short, curved or curled hairs usually less than long. The leaves are oval to narrow-elliptic shaped, arranged in whorls of 4-6 along the branches, usually long, wide and sessile. The flowers are borne mostly singly on a hooked peduncle, the petals mauve-pink and long with darker, hairless sepals that are long. Flowering occurs from September to November and the fruit is heart-shaped to more or less wedge shaped and long.
Taxonomy
Tetratheca bauerifolia was first formally described by Victorian Government Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in 1853 and the description was published in Synopsis Tremandrearum.
Heath pink-bells grows mostly at higher altitudes in eucalypt forests in rocky locations south of Hill End in New South Wales. A widespread species in eastern Victoria usually in rocky locations or in open forests.