Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Epacris rhombifolia
Common name
Mountain coral heath
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Wet heath, along watercouses, and in bogs. Blue Mountains and the tablelands west from there. Ranges south east of Cooma. Namadgi National Park, ACT, to Scabby Range just west of the ACT.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high. Branchlets rounded, hairy, brown to reddish brown. Old stems brown, with raised pointed leaf scars. Leaves crowded, overlapping each other on younger branches, then spreading down older branches, 0.22–0.44 cm long, 1.6–3.2 mm wide, hairless, flat, tips blunt, mucronate and slightly curved, margins slightly translucent, entire or rough towards the leaf tips, blades more or less diamond-shaped and virtually flat. Flowers white, 3.8-5 mm in diameter, the tube bell-shaped, with 5 spreading lobes. Sepals, and the bracts just below the flowers, white, red-tinged. No hairs on the inside of the flowers. Flowers in the axils along branches. Flowering: December to early March.
Was Epacris microphylla var. rhombifolia.
Family was Epacridaceae.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Epacris~rhombifolia (accessed 12 January, 2021)
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