Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Epacris celata
Common name
Cryptic heath
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Damp to wet heath and bogs. Mainly Kosciuszko National Park. ACT. Occasionally at high altitude elsewhere.
Notes
Shrub to 0.6 m high. Young stems red-brown, ridged with raised leaf scars, hairy; old stems dark grey-brown with flaking bark, leaf scars inconspicuous. Leaves scattered or overlapping, 0.2–0.55 cm long, 1.4–2.5 mm wide, hairless; flat or rarely slightly concave in cross section, 1–3 veined, mid-rib conspicuous, hardly keeled beneath, tips broadly pointed or blunt; margins entire, distinctively thickened, and rough in young leaves. Flowers white, 7–8 mm in diameter, with a bell-shaped tube, the tube 1–1.5 mm long, with 5 spreading lobes 2–3 mm long. No hairs on the inside of the flowers. Flowers in head-like clusters at the top of the branches. Flowers Dec.–Feb.
Family was Epacridaceae.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Epacris~celata (accessed 12 January, 2021)
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