Epacris apiculata explained

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.

Description

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]

Taxonomy and naming

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]

Distribution and habitat

This epacris grows in damp places on rock ledges at altitudes between in the Blue Mountains of eastern New South Wales.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Powell . Jocelyn M. . Epacris apiculata . Royal Botanic Garden Sydney . 22 April 2022.
  2. Telford . Ian R.H. . Budawangia and Rupicola, new and revised genera of Epacridaceae. . Telopea . 1992 . 5 . 1 . 235–237 . 10.7751/telopea19924966 . 22 April 2022. free .
  3. Web site: Epacris apiculata . APNI. 22 April 2022.
  4. Book: Cunningham . Allan . Field . Barron . Geographical Memoirs on New South Wales . 1825 . John Murray . London . 340 . 22 April 2022.
  5. Book: Sharr . Francis Aubi . George . Alex . Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings . 2019 . Four Gables Press . Kardinya, WA . 9780958034180 . 135 . 3rd.