Citation: Klotzsch in Lehm., Pl. Preiss. 232 (1848).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Dwarf erect multi-stemmed glabrous heath-like undershrubs, stems several to many, 5-25 cm long, becoming woody basally; leaves alternate, crowded, sessile, linear to narrow-oblong, 10-20 x 0.5-2 mm, subacute, margins revolute and more or less concealing the paler underneath; stipules narrow-triangular to lanceolate, 1.5-2 mm long, entire, leathery; monoecious.

Flowers numerous, on distinct pedicels 0.1-2 mm long, at first apparently in small pseudo-umbels, each flower in the axil of a linear-spathulate leaf 1-2 mm long, usually several umbels in a terminal head-like leafy corymb, the peduncles usually shorter than the subtending leaves; calyx segments obovate, c. 2 mm long, petaloid, male narrower than the female; stamens 5, the long free filaments exceeding the calyx segments, anther cells globose, c. 0.1 mm before opening, rudimentary ovary distinct, 3-lobed; female flowers fewer, ovary before anthesis c. 1 mm across, green, with 3 styles deeply 2-partite into 6 segments.

Capsule 2-3 mm across, dark-green to brown, more or less tuberculate dorsally, 6-seeded; seed reniform, to 1 mm long, dorsally convex and white-papillose in longitudinal rows, light-brown on ventral sides and less papillose.

	Poranthera ericoides habit, leaf, male flower, female flower, stamens, fruit and seed.
Image source: fig 407a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  On higher ground, along roadside or firebreaks, in lateritic clays or friable loams. Apparently not grazed.   W.Aust. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Aug. — Jan., mainly from Oct.

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

Biology: No text

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