Monotoca elliptica, the tree broom heath,[1] is a plant in the family Ericaceae, found in south-eastern Australia.
White flowers with red swollen anthers form in late winter and early spring on racemes.
Red or orange round shaped fruit form in spring and summer, 3 to 4 mm in diameter.
This plant first appeared in scientific literature in the year 1793 published as Styphelia elliptica in A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland by James Edward Smith.
[3] In 1810, the Scottish botanist Robert Brown published it in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae, as Monotoca elliptica.