trailing ground-berry

Acrotriche prostrata is a training shrub that has prostrate main stems and short side stems that sometimes grow to a height of up to about 15 cm (5.9 in), the branchlets hairy. The leaves are widely-spreading, lance-shaped to egg-shaped, 4–16 mm (0.16–0.63 in) long, 1–8 mm (0.039–0.315 in) wide and sharply-pointed. The flowers are arranged in spikes of 5 to 14 on the previous year's or older wood with bracteoles 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) long. The sepals are 2.8–4.0 mm (0.11–0.16 in) long and the petals are light green and joined at the base forming a tube 5.5–6.5 mm (0.22–0.26 in) long, the lobes 2.3–2.6 mm (0.091–0.102 in) long. Flowering mostly occurs between April and July and the fruit is an oval, greenish drupe 5–7 mm (0.20–0.28 in) long.

Trailing ground-berry often grows in damp forests, mostly in the southern half of Victoria.

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