Epacris curtisiae
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| Epacris curtisiae | |
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| In the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Epacris |
| Species: | E. curtisiae |
| Binomial name | |
| Epacris curtisiae | |
Epacris curtisiae is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to north-western Tasmania. It is a shrub with egg-shaped to almost circular leaves and tube-shaped white flowers crowded in upper leaf axils.
Epacris curtisiae is a shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.5–2 m (1 ft 8 in – 6 ft 7 in) and has several erect, slender stems. Its leaves are more or less flat, egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, to more or less circular, 3–6 mm (0.12–0.24 in) long and 2.5–4.5 mm (0.098–0.177 in) wide on a petiole 0.5–1 mm (0.020–0.039 in) long. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils forming clusters 10–50 mm (0.39–1.97 in) long at the ends of branches, each flower on a peduncle 1.0–1.5 mm (0.039–0.059 in) long. The five sepals are egg-shaped to elliptic, 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) long and tinged with pink and the petals are white, joined at the base to form a white tube 2.5–3.5 mm (0.098–0.138 in) long. The five stamens and the style are enclosed within the petal tube.[2][3]