Epacris apiculata
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| Epacris apiculata | |
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| In the Australian National Botanic Gardens | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Epacris |
| Species: | E. apiculata |
| Binomial name | |
| Epacris apiculata | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Rupicola apiculata (A.Cunn.) I.Telford | |
Epacris apiculata is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to a small area of New South Wales. It is a small, slender, low-lying to erect shrub with hairy branchlets, egg-shaped leaves with a thickened, pointed tip and tube-shaped flowers with white petals.
Epacris apiculata is a slender, low lying to erect shrub with stems up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) long, the branchlets covered with white hairs. The leaves are egg-shaped with a thickened, pointed tip, mostly 3–10 mm (0.12–0.39 in) long and 2.5–7 mm (0.098–0.276 in) wide and glabrous. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils on a peduncle 1.5–2.0 mm (0.059–0.079 in) long, the sepals 2.4–3.9 mm (0.094–0.154 in) long. The petals are white and joined at the base, forming a tube 1.2–3.5 mm (0.047–0.138 in) long with lobes 2.4–5 mm (0.094–0.197 in) long. The anthers are 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) long and the style is 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) long. Flowering occurs from October to January and the fruit is a glabrous capsule about 1.2 mm (0.047 in) long.[2][3]