Citation: Benth., Fl. Aust. 1:341 (1863).

Synonymy: Eriostemon microphyllus F. Muell., Trans. Phil. Soc. Vic. 1:9 (1854), non P. microphyllum Turcz. (1852).

Common name: Spreading phebalium.

Description:
Shrub to 70 cm; branchlets minutely stellate to glabrous; leaves with petioles c. 1 mm long; lamina ovate to broadly ovate, 3-5 x 2-4 mm, subcordate, obtuse to rounded, glabrous or minutely stellate.

Inflorescence terminal, a 2-4-flowered umbel-like cluster, a short peduncle to 3 mm sometimes evident in the axils of the uppermost leaves or bracts, sometimes appearing more than 20-flowered per cluster by internode reduction; pedicels 2-4 mm long; calyx lobes c. 0.5 mm long, glabrous; petals narrowly obovate, c. 4 mm long, white to pink; anthers pink; gynoecium 5-carpellate; carpels c. 1 mm high, glabrous, apex rounded.

Cocci c. 4 mm high; apex rounded, glabrous, finely corrugate; seeds c. 3 mm long.

Distribution:    Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: spring.

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

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