''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.

Description

''Epacris gunnii'' is a shrub with a few slender erect branches typically growing to a height of up to about , the branches softly-hairy. The leaves are glabrous, concave, broadly egg-shaped, long, wide, sharply-pointed and evenly-spaced along the branches. The flowers are arranged along of the branches in leaf axils, each flower on a

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about long with up to 21

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s at the base. The sepals are egg-shaped, long, the petal tube long with lobes long, the

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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 in diameter.

Taxonomy

''Epacris gunnii'' was first formally described in 1847 by Joseph Dalton Hooker in the ''

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Distribution and habitat

This epacris grows in forest, heath and grassland, sometime on stream banks and occurs on the coast and tablelands of eastern New South Wales, and mostly in higher places in eastern Victoria and Tasmania. In New South Wales it grows on peaty soils in association with ''

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q5381998 gunnii Ericales of Australia Flora of New South Wales Flora of Tasmania Flora of Victoria (state) Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker Plants described in 1847