Epacris franklinii
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| Epacris franklinii | |
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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. franklinii |
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| Epacris franklinii | |
Epacris franklinii is a species of flowering plant in the heath family, Ericaceae, and is endemic to Tasmania. It is an erect, spreading shrub with lance-shaped or elliptic leaves and white, tube-shaped flowers.
Epacris franklinii is an erect, spreading shrub that grows up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) high and has more or less glabrous stems. The leaves are lance-shaped or elliptic, 8–11 mm (0.31–0.43 in) long and 1.3–1.4 mm (0.051–0.055 in) wide on a petiole about 1 mm (0.039 in) long and with minute teeth on the edges. The flowers are arranged in a few leaf axils near the ends of branches, the sepals egg-shaped, about 4 mm (0.16 in) long, the petal tube slightly longer than the sepals and with shorter lobes, the anthers enclosed in the petal tube.[2][3]