- Plants
- ›Vascular Plants
- ›flowering plants
- ›Dicots
- ›Heathers, Balsams, Primroses, and Allies
- ›heath family
- ›Epacrids, Styphelias and Allies
- ›Epacrideae
- ›Epacris
Epacris crassifolia
Epacris crassifolia is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to south-eastern New South Wales, Australia. It is a low-lying shrub with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with the lower end towards the base, and tube-shaped, white or cream-coloured flowers clustered near the ends of the branches.
From the article Epacris crassifolia on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Epacris crassifolia is a low-lying shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 20 cm (7.9 in) and has stems with prominent leaf scars. The leaves are elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 5–13 mm (0.20–0.51 in) long and 1.5–7 mm (0.059–0.276 in) wide on a petiole 0.6–1.8 mm (0.024–0.071 in) long. The flowers are arranged in clusters near the ends of branches and are white or cream-coloured, tube-shaped and swollen near the middle, their size depending on subspecies, on a peduncle 1.5–5 mm (0.059–0.197 in) long. Flowering occurs from November to January and the fruit is a capsule 1.4–2.8 mm (0.055–0.110 in) long.
Range & habitat
This epacris grows on sandstone rock ledges and in rock crevices on the Central and South Coasts of New South Wales and inland as far as the Blue Mountains.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Epacris crassifolia in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
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 918338.