Epacris apiculata is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to a small area of New South Wales. It is a small, slender, low-lying to erect shrub with hairy branchlets, egg-shaped leaves with a thickened, pointed tip and tube-shaped flowers with white petals.
Epacris apiculata is a slender, low lying to erect shrub with stems up to long, the branchlets covered with white hairs. The leaves are egg-shaped with a thickened, pointed tip, mostly long and wide and glabrous. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils on a peduncle long, the sepals long. The petals are white and joined at the base, forming a tube long with lobes long. The anthers are long and the style is long. Flowering occurs from October to January and the fruit is a glabrous capsule about long.[1] [2]
Epacris apiculata was first formally described in 1825 by Allan Cunningham in Barron Field's Geographical Memoirs on New South Wales based on plant material he collected on Kings Tableland.[3] [4] The specific epithet (apiculata) means "ending abruptly in a small point".[5]
This epacris grows in damp places on rock ledges at altitudes between in the Blue Mountains of eastern New South Wales.