About Acrotriche fasciculiflora (Regel) Benth.
Acrotriche fasciculiflora is a rigid shrub that usually grows to between 0.5 and 1.5 metres (1 foot 8 inches to 4 feet 11 inches) tall, and has reddish-brown young branches. Its leaves are lance-shaped, 7 to 12 millimetres (0.28 to 0.47 inches) long and 2 to 4 millimetres (0.079 to 0.157 inches) wide, borne on a petiole 0.2 to 0.5 millimetres (0.0079 to 0.0197 inches) long, and taper to a fine point. The pale pink flowers are arranged in densely crowded spikes at the base of the stem, or sometimes at the base of branches; these clusters sometimes form a mass 5 to 7 millimetres (0.20 to 0.28 inches) in diameter. At the base of the sepals, there are egg-shaped to oblong bracts 1.5 to 2.4 millimetres (0.059 to 0.094 inches) long, and bracteoles 2.0 to 2.3 millimetres (0.079 to 0.091 inches) long. The sepals are sparsely hairy, 3.3 to 5.1 millimetres (0.13 to 0.20 inches) long and 1.2 to 1.8 millimetres (0.047 to 0.071 inches) wide. The petals are joined at the base to form a tube 4.4 to 8.2 millimetres (0.17 to 0.32 inches) long, with lobes 2.4 to 2.6 millimetres (0.094 to 0.102 inches) long. The anthers are pale orange, and the ovary is glabrous, 0.8 to 1.1 millimetres (0.031 to 0.043 inches) long and 0.7 to 0.9 millimetres (0.028 to 0.035 inches) wide. Flowering takes place between August and October. The fruit is pink, flattened spherical, 2.0 to 2.9 millimetres (0.079 to 0.114 inches) long and 2.5 to 3.3 millimetres (0.098 to 0.130 inches) wide. This species, commonly called pink ground-berry, grows in open sclerophyll forest in the southern Mount Lofty Ranges and on Kangaroo Island in South Australia.
