''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.
Description
''Epacris franklinii'' is an erect, spreading shrub that grows up to high and has more or less
glabrous stems. The leaves are lance-shaped or elliptic, long and wide on a
petiole about 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 long, the petal tube slightly longer than the sepals and with shorter lobes, the
anthers
The stamen (plural ''stamina'' or ''stamens'') is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower. Collectively the stamens form the androecium., p. 10
Morphology and terminology
A stamen typically consists of a stalk called the filam ...
enclosed in the petal tube.
Taxonomy and naming
''Epacris franklinii'' was first formally described in 1857 by
Joseph Dalton Hooker in ''
The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae'' from specimens collected on the banks of the
Franklin River in
Macquarie Harbour by
Ronald Campbell Gunn
Ronald Campbell Gunn, Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS, (4 April 1808 – 13 March 1881) was a South African-born Australian Botany, botanist and politician.
Early life
Gunn was born at Cape Town, Cape Colony, (now South Africa), the son of W ...
.
Distribution and habitat
This epacris grows on the banks of the
Meander,
Mersey,
Pieman,
Maxwell,
Gordon,
Franklin
Franklin may refer to:
People
* Franklin (given name)
* Franklin (surname)
* Franklin (class), a member of a historical English social class
Places Australia
* Franklin, Tasmania, a township
* Division of Franklin, federal electoral d ...
and
King River systems in north-western Tasmania where it is periodically inundated.
References
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franklinii
Endemic flora of Tasmania
Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker
Plants described in 1857