See text Acrotriche is a genus of about 18 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae, occurring in all states of Australia except the Northern Territory.

Plants in the genus Acrotriche are shrubs with hairy branchlets, leaves with more or less parallel veins and small flowers with 5 sepals and petals joined at the base to form a bell-shaped to cylindrical tube with hairs and stamens in the throat.

Plants in the genus Acrotriche are shrubs with branchlets with fine, soft or downy hairs, and leaves with short petioles and more or less parallel veins and a lighter shade of green on the lower surface.

The flowers are small and bisexual, sessile or on a short spike in leaf axils with a bract and 2 bracteoles below the 5 sepals.

[2][3][4][5] The genus Acrotriche was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.