''Epacris tasmanica'' is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to Tasmania. It is an erect shrub with lance-shaped leaves and tube-shaped white flowers crowded in upper leaf axils.

Description

''Epacris tasmanica'' is an erect, sometimes bushy shrub that grows to a height of up to but typically less than , and has few branches, the stems and branchlets hairy when young. Its leaves are spreading, lance-shaped, long, wide and sharply pointed, on a petiole less than long. The flowers are clustered near the ends of branches on

pedicels In botany, a pedicel is a stem that attaches a single flower to the inflorescence. Such inflorescences are described as ''pedicellate''. Description Pedicel refers to a structure connecting a single flower to its inflorescence. In the absenc ...

long with creamy-white

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 about long, lance-shaped and about the same length as the petal tube. The petal tube is bell-shaped, long with lobes long.

Taxonomy

''Epacris tasmanica'' was first formally described in 1969 by Winifred Curtis in the journal '' Taxon''.

Distribution

This epacris is endemic to Tasmania where it is common and widespread in the east of the state, where it grows in stony soil at low altitudes.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q17233623 tasmanica Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773) Plants described in 1969 Flora of Tasmania