Pink Swamp Heath

Sprengelia incarnata

Description:

Erect shrub, 50–200 cm high, glabrous. Leaves ovate to lanceolate, 5–20 mm long, 2–6 mm wide, mucro 0.4–0.6 mm long; margins entire or ciliolate where stem-clasping. Flowers in clusters of 3–20, pink; bracts ovate, 2.5–4 mm long, acuminate with a 0.5 mm mucro, ciliolate on the broad hyaline base. Sepals often spreading, triangular, 4–5 mm long, acute, glabrous. Corolla tube 0.7–1.3 mm long; lobes usually spreading, 3–5 mm long, acute, glabrous. Anthers 1.5–1.8 mm long, cohering, papillose-hairy on the outside. Fruit c. 1.8 mm diam.