Description
Physical Description
Habit: Evergreen .
Flowers: Bloom Period: March. • Flower Color: cream, near white, pale green, tan, white
Size/Age/Growth
Size: 18-24" tall.
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,026 meters (0 to 3,366 feet).[1]
Biology
Growth
Culture: Space 4-6' apart.
Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full sun to partial shade.
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Dilleniidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Ericanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Ericales
()
- Dumortier, 1829
- Family:
Epacridaceae
()
- R. Brown, 1810
- Genus:
Acrotriche
()
- Specific epithet:
aggregata
- R.Br.
- Botanical name: - Acrotriche aggregata
- Specific epithet:
aggregata
- R.Br.
- Genus:
Acrotriche
(
- Family:
Epacridaceae
(
- Order:
Ericales
(
- Superorder:
Ericanae
(
- Subclass:
Dilleniidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : R.Br. Publication : Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland. 547.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Acrotriche
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 23 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
A. affinis · A. aggregata · A. aristata · A. baileyana · A. cordata · A. depressa · A. depressa var. depressa · A. divaricata · A. dura · A. fasciculiflora · A. halmaturina · A. latifolia · A. leucocarpa · A. manglesii · A. ovalifolia · A. patula · A. plurilocularis · A. prostrata (Trailing Ground-Berry) · A. ramiflora · A. rigida · A. serrulata (Cushion Ground-Berry) · A. serrulata var. ventricosa · A. subcordata
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Notes
Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 01, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 01, 2008:
- Australian National Herbarium (CANB)
- National Herbarium of New South Wales: NSW herbarium collection
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10655674
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:87925-3
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 87925-3
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1264251
Footnotes
- Mean = 390.150 meters (1,280.020 feet), Standard Deviation = 355.940 based on 123 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
