''Brachyloma daphnoides'', commonly known as daphne heath, is a flowering plant in the family

Ericaceae The Ericaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family, found most commonly in acidic and infertile growing conditions. The family is large, with c.4250 known species spread across 124 genera, making it th ...

. It is a small upright shrub with dull grey-green leaves and white tubular flowers.

Description

''Brachyloma daphnoides'' is a small, upright shrub that usually grows to a height of high and branches covered in long, upright, stiff hairs. The dull grey-green leaves may be egg-shaped,

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, elliptic, or more or less circular, flattish, tightly overlap along the stems, long, wide. The upper surface is glossy green, underneath paler, smooth or hairy, petiole long, and rounded or pointed at the apex. The cream-white flowers are borne in leaf axils, scented, sometimes grouped, corolla tubular, long with recurved lobes long. Flowering occurs from June to November and the fruit is a rounded, ridged, slightly flattened yellowish-brown berry about in diameter and long.

Taxonomy and naming

''Brachyloma daphnoides'' was first formally described 1868 by

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and the description was published in ''

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''. The

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(''daphnoides'') means like "daphne".

Distribution and habitat

Daphne heath grows mostly on rocky sites in woodland and forests in

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2923308 Epacridoideae Flora of New South Wales Flora of Queensland Flora of South Australia

Taxa named by George Bentham Taxa named by James Edward Smith