Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Epacris robusta
Common name
Round-leaf heath
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Dry forest and heath, often on rocky slopes, at higher altitudes. Blue Mountains. ACT. Tablelands and ranges south from east of the ACT.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high. Stems with inconspicuous leaf scars. Branchlets hairy. Leaves scattered or overlapping, 0.4–0.8 cm long, 3.2–6.5 mm wide, tips blunt and often more or less turned up, margins thickened; blades thick, flat, surfaces more or less rough. Flowers sweet-scented, cream, 6–7 mm in diameter, tubular, the tube 6–7.6 mm long, with 5 spreading lobes. No hairs on the inside of the flowers. Flowers in short leafy clusters near the ends of the branches. Flowering: August–December, or rarely April.
Family was Epacridaceae.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Epacris~robusta (accessed 12 January, 2021)
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