Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Epacris reclinata
Common name
Fuchsia heath
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, and heath, on damp sandstone cliff faces and rock ledges. Ranges north from the Blue Mountains.
Notes
Shrub to 0.6 m high, sprawling to spreading. Stems with prominent short, broad, leaf scars. Branchlets densely hairy. Leaves scattered or overlapping, 0.5–0.88 cm long, 2.4–5.2 mm wide, tips pointed, bases blunt or cordate, margins entire, with minute teeth towards the leaf bases, or shortly fringed; blades thick, more or less concave in cross section, sometimes sparsely hairy. Flowers pink to red, sometimes with lighter coloured lobes, tubular, the tube 9–17.3 mm long, with 5 spreading lobes. No hairs on the inside of the flowers. Flowers extending down the branches. Flowering: June–December
Family was Epacridaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Epacris~reclinata (accessed 12 January, 2021)
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