''Epacris myrtifolia'' is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to Tasmania. It is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are thick, crowded, egg-shaped with a small, blunt point on the tip, and long. The flowers are arranged singly in a few upper leaf axils with many leathery

bract In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are usually different from foliage leaves. They may be smaller, larger, or of ...

s at the base. The sepals are leathery, about long, the petal tube slightly shorter than the sepals with lobes about the same length, the

anther 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 ...

s protruding slightly from the petal tube. ''Epacris heteronema'' was first formally described in 1805 by Jacques Labillardière in his '' Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen''. This epacris grows in exposed coastal scrub in the south-east of Tasmania.

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myrtifolia Ericales of Australia Flora of Tasmania Plants described in 1805 {{Australia-eudicot-stub