Epacris gunnii
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| Epacris gunnii | |
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| In Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Epacris |
| Species: | E. gunnii |
| Binomial name | |
| Epacris gunnii | |
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Epacris microphylla var. gunnii (Hook.f.) Benth. | |
Epacris gunnii is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with hairy branchlets, concave, sharply-pointed, broadly egg-shaped leaves, and tube-shaped, white flowers arranged along the stems.
Epacris gunnii is a shrub with a few slender erect branches typically growing to a height of up to about 1 m (3 ft 3 in), the branches softly-hairy. The leaves are glabrous, concave, broadly egg-shaped, 2.0–6.5 mm (0.079–0.256 in) long, 1.8–5.5 mm (0.071–0.217 in) wide, sharply-pointed and evenly-spaced along the branches. The flowers are arranged along 20–30 cm (7.9–11.8 in) of the branches in leaf axils, each flower on a pedicel about 1 mm (0.039 in) long with up to 21 bracts at the base. The sepals are egg-shaped, 2.2–3.0 mm (0.087–0.118 in) long, the petal tube 1.2–2.0 mm (0.047–0.079 in) long with lobes 1.7–2.7 mm (0.067–0.106 in) long, the anthers slightly longer than the petal tube. Flowering occurs from April to October in New South Wales, from September to December in Tasmania. In Victoria, flowering can occur in any month, but from October to February at higher elevations. The fruit is a capsule 1.4–1.8 mm (0.055–0.071 in) in diameter.[2][3][4][5]