Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Epacris muelleri
Common name
A heath
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Forest, shrubland and heath, on damp rocks in sheltered situations. Ranges and tablelands west from the Sydney area and south to Wollongong.
Notes
Shrub to 0.3 m high, straggling. Stems with prominent, narrow, triangular leaf scars. Branchlets almost hairless. Leaves scattered or overlapping, 0.17–0.45 cm long, 0.5–2.2 mm wide, tips more or less blunt, margins entire; blades thick, wedge-shaped on lower surface. Flowers white or cream, 5–6.5 mm in diameter, tubular, the tube 1.5–2.1 mm long, with 5 spreading lobes. No hairs on the inside of the flowers. Flowers in short to long leafy clusters. Flowering: October–November.
Family was Epacridaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Epacris~muelleri (accessed 12 January, 2021)
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