Epacris decumbens
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| Epacris decumbens | |
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| In the Australian National Botanic Gardens | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Epacris |
| Species: | E. decumbens |
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| Epacris decumbens | |
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Epacris decumbens is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales. It is a straggling, low-lying shrub with hairy branchlets, elliptic to egg-shaped leaves, and tube-shaped, white flowers.
Epacris decumbens is a straggling, low-lying shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 80 cm (31 in) and has shaggy-hairy stems up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) long. The leaves are elliptic to egg-shaped, 12–20 mm (0.47–0.79 in) long and 3.8–7.6 mm (0.15–0.30 in) wide on a hairy petiole 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) long. The flowers are 13–17 mm (0.51–0.67 in) in diameter and arranged singly on a peduncle about 3 mm (0.12 in) long, the sepals 5.3–6.1 mm (0.21–0.24 in) long. The petal tube is 1.0–1.3 mm (0.039–0.051 in) long, the lobes 7–8 mm (0.28–0.31 in) long. Flowering occurs in November and December and the fruit is a capsule about 4 mm (0.16 in) in diameter.[2][3]