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Epacris gnidioides
Epacris gnidioides, commonly known as Budawangs cliff-heath, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales. It is a small, creeping shrub with hairy branches, sharply-pointed lance-shaped leaves, and tube-shaped, white flowers. Originally described as Rupicola gnidioides, it was at one time regarded as the only species in the genus Budawangia under the synonym Budawangia gnidioides.
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Description
Epacris gnidioides is a creeping, rhizome-forming shrub with branches up to 50 cm (20 in) long. Its leaves are lance-shaped, 4–8 mm (0.16–0.31 in) long and 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) wide on a petiole about 1.5 mm (0.059 in) long. The leaves are thin, concave and covered with long, soft hairs. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils on a pedicel 1.5–5 mm (0.059–0.197 in) long, the sepals 2.5–3.0 mm (0.098–0.118 in) long. The petals are white and form a tube 1.0–1.2 mm (0.039–0.047 in) long, the lobes 3.0–3.5 mm (0.12–0.14 in) long and tapered. Flowering occurs from September to February and the fruit is a capsule about 2 mm (0.079 in) long.
Range & habitat
Budawangs cliff-heath grows in rock crevices and on sandy ledges at the base of sandstone cliffs on the edges of forest and heath and is only known from the northern Budawang Range in south-eastern New South Wales.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
Where it lives
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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 918333.