Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Epacris hamiltonii

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer T Mulcahy, Australian National Botanic Gardens Nursery, Canberra, ACT

Common name

A heath

Family

Ericaceae

Where found

Rainforest and wet forest and at the sheltered bases of cliffs adjacent to wet gullies and swamps. Blue Mountains.

Notes

Shrub to 1 m high or sprawling, sprouting from the base and suckering from the roots. Stems with more or less inconspicuous leaf scars. Branchlets densely hairy. Leaves scattered or overlapping, 0.67–1.4 cm long, 2.8–6.2 mm wide, thin, flat, tips pointed, margins rough. The silky hairs on both surfaces of the leaves are very distinctive, and give the leaves a soft grey/green appearance. Flowers white, about 7.5–10 mm in diameter, tubular, the tube 7.8–12 mm long, with 5 spreading lobes. No hairs on the inside of the flowers. Flowers few, at the ends of the branches. Flowers July to December.

Family was Epacridaceae.

Endangered Australia. Endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.

NSW Threatened Species profile:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10272 (accessed 5 January, 2021)

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Epacris~hamiltonii  (accessed  5 January, 2021)