Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Epacris apiculata
Common name
None
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Damp situations on sandstone rock ledges between 700-1100 m altitude. Blue Mountains.
Notes
Shrub to 0.45 m high. Branches with prominent leaf scars. Branchlets hairy. Leaves crowded, 0.33–0.94 cm long, 2–6.2 mm wide, thick, flat to concave in cross section, bases cordate to more or less auriculate, margins entire and rolled upwards, tips pointed and with a long hard tip. Flowers white, tubular, the tube 1.2–3.5 mm long, with 5 spreading lobes each 2.4–5 mm long. Flowers single at the base of the crowded leaves. Flowering: October–January.
Family was Epacridaceae.
PlantNET description: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Epacris~apiculata(accessed 26 January 2021)
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