Epacris mucronulata

Epacris mucronulata is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to Tasmania. It is an erect shrub with softly-hairy young branches, lance-shaped leaves, and cylindrical white flowers in small groups at the ends of the branches.

Description

Epacris mucronulata is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has many branches, the young stems softly-hairy. Its leaves are lance-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are arranged in small clusters in leaf axils near the ends of branches on a pedicel long with egg-shaped bracts at the base. The five sepals are lance-shaped to narrowly egg-shaped and about long. The petals are white, joined at the base to form a cylindrical tube, the style and anthers enclosed inside the petal tube.

Taxonomy and naming

Epacris mucronulata was first formally described in 1810 by Robert in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen. The specific epithet means "having a small sharp point".

Distribution and habitat

This epacris grows near rivers, especially in rainforest and is found in the south-west of Tasmania, including near the Huon and Gordon Rivers.