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Epacris navicularis
Epacris navicularis is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to south-western Tasmania. It is a shrub with crowded, overlapping egg-shaped leaves arranged in five rows, and bell-shaped white flowers crowded in upper leaf axils.
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Description
Epacris navicularis is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 50 cm (20 in) and has softly-hairy young stems. Its leaves are crowded, overlapping and egg-shaped, arranged in five columns along the branches, 2.5–3.5 mm (0.098–0.138 in) long and about 1 mm (0.039 in) wide on a short, broad petiole. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils forming a cluster near the ends of branches. The five sepals are broadly lance-shaped to egg-shaped, 3.0–3.5 mm (0.12–0.14 in) long and the petals are white, joined at the base to form a bell-shaped tube with lobes that are longer than the petal tube. Flowering occurs from January to March.
Range & habitat
This epacris grows in exposed alpine heathland in south-western Tasmania, including on Frenchmans Cap.
== 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 918326.