Brachyloma daphnoides

Brachyloma daphnoides, commonly known as daphne heath, is a flowering plant in the family Ericaceae. It is a small upright shrub with dull grey-green leaves and white tubular flowers.

Description
Brachyloma daphnoides is a small, upright shrub that usually grows to a height of 0.4 and 1.5 m high and branches covered in long, upright, stiff hairs. The dull grey-green leaves may be egg-shaped, obovate, elliptic, or more or less circular, flattish, tightly overlap along the stems, 4 to 15 mm long, 1.7 to 3.6 mm wide. The upper surface is glossy green, underneath paler, smooth or hairy, petiole 0.9-1.2 mm long, and rounded or pointed at the apex. The cream-white flowers are borne in leaf axils, scented, sometimes grouped, corolla tubular, 4.3-5.5 mm long with recurved lobes 1.8-2.4 mm long. Flowering occurs from June to November and the fruit is a rounded, ridged, slightly flattened yellowish-brown berry about 4 mm in diameter and 2-3 mm long.

Taxonomy and naming
Brachyloma daphnoides was first formally described 1868  by James Edward Smith and the description was published in Flora Australiensis. The specific epithet (daphnoides) means like "daphne".

Distribution and habitat
Daphne heath grows mostly on rocky sites in woodland and forests in South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland.