Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Epacris pinoidea

Common name

A heath

Family

Ericaceae

Where found

Dry forest on sandstone cliffs and fissures, and stream banks. Mainly Blue Mountains.

Notes

Shrub to 1 m high. Old stems dark brown, leaf scars prominent. Young branches rounded, hairless, red-brown. Leaves scattered or overlapping, 0.8–1.4 cm long, 3–4 mm wide, hairless; tips blunt; margins entire; a single main vein prominent. Flowers white, 8–11 mm in diameter, bell-shaped, the tube 5–7 mm long, with 5 spreading lobes. No hairs on the inside of the flowers. Sepals cream a with greenish tinge. Flowers few, clustered near the tops of new branches. Flowers summer.

Family was Epacridaceae.

PlantNET description with a photo of a dried specimen:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Epacris~pinoidea  (accessed 12 January, 2021)