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Acrotriche rigida

Acrotriche rigida
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Acrotriche rigida is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a rigid, clump-forming, densely-branched shrub with stiff, spreading, sharply-pointed, lance-shaped leaves and spikes of 4 to 7 green flowers and flattened spherical, creamy-green drupes.

Where it grows

This species of Acrotriche grows in scrub or dry sclerophyll forest on rocky hillsides between the Warrumbungles, Denman and Rylstone, and south to Goobang National Park.

Other Acrotriche plants

Prickly Honey Pots · Ground Berry · Acrotriche baileyana · Coast Ground Berry · Australian Native Currant · Acrotriche divaricata · Acrotriche dura · Mount Lofty Ground Berry · Acrotriche halmaturina · Acrotriche lancifolia · Tall Acrotriche · Acrotriche orbicularis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acrotriche rigida by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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