Citation: A. Rich., Voy. Astrolabe 2:t. 26 (1833).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Bendigo wax-flower, fairy wax-flower.

Description:
Small shrub to 60 cm high; branchlets glandular-verrucose, glabrous; leaves lacking stipules, sessile; lamina obcordate, 6-15 x 4-7 mm, glabrous, glandular-warty on the lower surface.

Inflorescence axillary, 1-3-flowered; sepals rounded, c. 1 mm long, margins thin, ciliolate; petals elliptic, 5-6 mm long, white, sometimes pink; stamens with filaments flattened, sparsely ciliate; carpels 1-1.5 mm high, glabrous; stigma slightly spreading.

Cocci slightly spreading, 5-6 mm long, apiculate; seeds compressed, c. 4.5 mm long, smooth, black.

	Eriostemon verrucosus
Image source: fig 413b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Costermans (1981) Native trees and shrubs of south-eastern Australia, p. 201.

Distribution:    Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: mainly Aug. — Oct.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available