Epacris glabella
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| Epacris glabella | |
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| In the Savage River Regional Reserve | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Epacris |
| Species: | E. glabella |
| Binomial name | |
| Epacris glabella | |
Epacris glabella, commonly known as smooth heath,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the heath family, Ericaceae, and is endemic to Tasmania. It is a shrub with erect branches, egg-shaped to elliptic leaves and white, tube-shaped flowers.
Epacris glabella is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–2 m (3 ft 3 in – 6 ft 7 in) and has slender, more or less glabrous branches. The leaves are egg-shaped to elliptic, glabrous, thick and shining, 3.5–7 mm (0.14–0.28 in) long and 2.0–3.5 mm (0.079–0.138 in) wide on a petiole less than 1 mm (0.039 in) long. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils and are more or less sessile, the petal tube bell-shaped and 2.5–3.5 mm (0.098–0.138 in) long with five lobes 3–5 mm (0.12–0.20 in) long. The anthers and style protrude beyond the petal tube. Flowering occurs in spring.[2][3][4]
Taxonomy and naming
Epacris glabella was first formally described in 1991 by S. Jean Jarman in Aspects of Tasmanian Botany - a tribute to Winifred Curtis from specimens collected in 1986.[5] The specific epithet (glabella) means "glabrous".[6]