Epacris cerasicollina
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| Epacris cerasicollina | |
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| In the Douglas-Apsley National Park | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Epacris |
| Species: | E. cerasicollina |
| Binomial name | |
| Epacris cerasicollina | |
Epacris cerasicollina is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to Tasmania. It is a shrub with lance-shaped to egg-shaped, slightly concave leaves and tube-shaped white flowers mostly clustered in upper leaf axils.
Epacris cerasicollina is a shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.5–1.5 m (1 ft 8 in – 4 ft 11 in) and has several erect stems. Its leaves are more or less flat, lance-shaped to egg-shaped, slightly concave at the base, 3–8 mm (0.12–0.31 in) long and 2–4 mm (0.079–0.157 in) wide on a petiole less than 1 mm (0.039 in) long and with a sharply pointed tip. The flowers are clustered in a few leaf axils near the ends of branches, each on a peduncle 2.5–4 mm (0.098–0.157 in) long. The five sepals are glabrous apart from a few hairs on the edges and the petals are white, joined at the base to form a white tube 2.9–4.1 mm (0.11–0.16 in) long. The five stamens and the style extend slightly beyond the end of the petal tube.[2]