Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Epacris calvertiana

Flowering and leafy stems (var. calvertiana) Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering stem (var. versicolor) Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Shrub (var. versicolor). Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering stems (var. calvertiana). Photographer Don Wood, Bulee Gap NE of Nerriga

Common name

A heath

Family

Ericaceae

Where found

Forest, shrubland, and rocky areas. Ranges and the eastern edge of the tablelands north from west of Tuross Head. Coastal north of Ulladulla. Rarely farther south.

var. calvertiana:  Ranges and the eastern edge of the tablelands north from west of Tuross Head. Coastal north From Jervis Bay. Rarely farther south.

var. versicolor: Coast, ranges, and Southern Highlands between Wollongong and Nowra. Rarely elsewhere.

Notes

Shrub to 1.8 m high. Stems with inconspicuous leaf scars; branchlets woolly. Leaves scattered or overlapping, 0.56–1.43 cm long, 1.4–3 mm wide, thin, concave or rolled upwards at the tips, margins entire or fringed towards the leaf bases, tips gradually tapering to a fine tip. Flowers white or cream-green, sometimes with a pink or red tube, tubular, the tube 10.2–16 mm long, with 5 spreading lobes each 3.8–5.5 mm long, concave or rolled upwards at the tips. No hairs on the inside of the flowers. Flowers in long leafy clusters. Flowers Winter to Spring.

var. calvertiana:  Flowers usually 3–5 mm in diameter, white or cream or cream-green.

var. versicolor:  Flowers usually 5–7 mm in diameter, the tube pink to red and lobes white or cream.

Family was Epacridaceae.

PlantNET description of species and key to varieties:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Epacris~calvertiana  (accessed 12 January, 2021)