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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.
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Description
Epacris mucronulata is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) and has many branches, the young stems softly-hairy. Its leaves are lance-shaped, 8–12 mm (0.31–0.47 in) long and 1.5–2.0 mm (0.059–0.079 in) wide on a petiole 1.0–1.2 mm (0.039–0.047 in) long. The flowers are arranged in small clusters in leaf axils near the ends of branches on a pedicel 2.0–2.3 mm (0.079–0.091 in) long with egg-shaped bracts at the base. The five sepals are lance-shaped to narrowly egg-shaped and about 4 mm (0.16 in) long. The petals are white, joined at the base to form a cylindrical tube, the style and anthers enclosed inside the petal tube.
Range & 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.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 918328.