Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Epacris sprengelioides
Common name
None
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Dry forest on rocky ground, sandstone ledges, and cliff faces. From north of Mount Wilson in the Blue Mountains and south to the mountains west of Picton.
Notes
Erect shrub to 1.5 m high. Branches with prominent leaf scars. Branchlets hairy. Leaves crowded, erect, 1–2.8 cm long, 1.8–3.1 mm wide, margins entire or fringed with minute hairs towards the leaf bases or overall; blades more or less thin, flat, tips pointed. Flowers white or cream, tubular, the tube 1.3–2 mm long, with 5 spreading lobes each 4–6.3 mm long. Sepals 5.5–6 mm long. Flowers single at the base of the crowded leaves. Flowering: September–February.
Family was Epacridaceae.
PlantNET description: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Epacris~sprengelioides (accessed 26 January 2021)
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