Acrothamnus hookeri
Mountain Beard Heath at Jingera, NSW
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| Acrothamnus hookeri | Csteele4 | 15 Sep 2025 | |
| Acrothamnus hookeri | Tapirlord | 14 Sep 2025 | |
| Leucopogon gelidus | Csteele4 | 12 Sep 2025 |
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4 comments
14 Sep 2025
@Tapirlord would love your input on this. It's not quite right for L gelidus, but I can't find anything it fits. Drooping habit, flowers in clusters of 6-8 on short stalks, 5 attached petals with quite a lot of hairs so definitely Styphelidae. Dry forest, but in a semi-permanent creek line. Acrothamnus sp was suggested on iNat but I can't find any which have that drooping habit.
14 Sep 2025
I'd agree that this one looks like Acrothamnus, and given we are in Tallanganda it will be a good match for Acrothamnus hookeri. The corolla lobes being shorter than the tube is a good indicator to exclude Styphelia; I would say that flower spike, though obviously droopy, aren't decurved and they have that bell-flower look of a Cryptandra which also suggests Acrothamnus. I couldn't find any images of plants quite like yours (with the drooping spikes), but i've known this species to have drooping branches when well laden with fruit so figured if heavily laden with flowers then you might get the same effect.
15 Sep 2025
@Tapirlord thank you! I've never seen A hookeri with drooping flowers so it threw me. :)
Location information
- Coordinates 149.474359-35.658057
- Altitude 1083.0m
- Maps Tallaganda National Park
- Places Jingera, NSW
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 12 Sep 2025 05:00 PM Recorded on
- Csteele4 Recorded by
- 30cm to 1 metre Plant height
- Yes In flower
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Species information
- Acrothamnus hookeri Scientific name
- Mountain Beard Heath Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1835.77m Recorded at altitude
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Synonyms
Leucopogon hookeri
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