Acrotriche serrulata

Acrotriche serrulata, commonly known as honey pots, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae, and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a low-lying, mat-forming shrub with lance-shaped to linear leaves, pale green to whitish, cylindrical flowers and greyish-green fruit.

Description
Acrotriche serrulata is a low-lying, matt-forming shrub that typically spreads to about 1 m wide, with ascending branches up to 15–60 cm high. The leaves are lance-shaped to linear, 3.5–13.0 mm long and 0.5–2.0 mm wide on a petiole 0.3–0.7 mm long with finely toothed edges and shallow groovs on the lower surface. The flowers are borne in spikes of 5 to 10 with bracteoles 1.0–1.5 mm long at the base. The sepals are 1.4–2.8 mm long and the petal are pale green or whitish and joined at the base, forming tube 4.0–4.7 mm long with lobes 1.5–2.0 mm long. Flowering occurs from August to September and the fruit is a flattened spherical capsule 2.5–4.5 mm long and greyish-green.

Taxonomy
Acrotriche serrulata was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen. The specific epithet (serrulata) means "like a small saw".

Distribution and habitat
Honey pots is widely distributed in New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and Tasmania, where it grows in woodland, forest, coastal heath and mallee shrubland.