Epacris browniae is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to a small area of New South Wales. It is an erect, woody shrub with wand-like branchlets, crowded, glabrous, trowel-shaped leaves and tube-shaped flowers with white petals.

Description

''Epacris browmniae'' is an erect, woody shrub that typically grows to a height of up to high and has wand-like branchlets. The leaves are broadly trowel-shaped and concave, long and wide on a straw-coloured petiole long. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils extending down the branchlets, each flower on a

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about long. The flowers are in diameter, the sepals long with minute teeth on the edges. The petals are white and joined at the base, forming a bell-shaped tube long. The stamen filaments are fused to the petal tube and the

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are level with the end of the tube. Flowering mainly occurs in November and the fruit is a brown capsule about long.

Taxonomy

''Epacris browniae'' was first formally described in 2015 by David Coleby in the journal '' Telopea'' from specimens he collected from near Wentworth Falls in 2014. The

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(''browniae'') honours epacris researcher

Elizabeth Anne Brown Elizabeth Anne Brown (15 November 1956 – 17 November 2013) was a New Zealand-born Australian bryologist who primarily contributed to the systematics of liverworts. Early life and education Brown was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 15 Nov ...

Distribution and habitat

This epacris grows on rocky outcrops in scrub and heath in the Blue Mountains in eastern New South Wales.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q65937539 Flora of New South Wales browniae Ericales of Australia Plants described in 2015