Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Epacris pilosa

Common name

None

Family

Ericaceae

Where found

Open forest in rock crevices, on rock ledges, and beneath cliff overhangs. Blue Mountains.

Notes

Sprawling shrub with branches to 50 cm long. Branches with prominent leaf scars. Branchlets hairy. Leaves crowded, horizontal, 0.8–1.4 cm long, 3–4.1 mm wide, tips pointed, margins finely and evenly fringed and often with some longer hairs, blades thin, more or less flat. Flowers white or cream, tubular, the tube 1.4–1.5 mm long, with 5 spreading lobes each 4.9–5.8 mm long. Sepals 3.3–5 mm long. Flowers single at the base of the crowded leaves. Flowering: Nov–December.

Family was Epacridaceae.

PlantNET description:  https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Epacris~pilosa  (accessed 26 January 2021)