Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Epacris rigida

Common name

A heath

Family

Ericaceae

Where found

Heath on exposed sandstone ridges. Blue Mountains.

Notes

Shrub to 0.6 m high. Stems with prominent, more or less triangular. leaf scars. Branchlets hairy with fine hairs. Leaves crowded at the ends of the branches, 0.2–0.49 cm long, 1.1–2.8 mm wide, tips more or less blunt, margins with minute teeth and curving upwards at the leaf tips; blades thick, flat to concave with the midrib prominent on the lower surface. Flowers white or cream, 4–6 mm in diameter, tubular, with 5 spreading lobes each 2–3 mm long. No hairs on the inside of the flowers. Flowers in short leafy clusters at the ends of the branches. Flowering: August–September, or rarely May.

Family was Epacridaceae.

PlantNET description with line drawings and photo of dried specimen:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Epacris~rigida  (accessed 12 January, 2021)