Epacris mucronulata is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to Tasmania. It is an erect shrub with softly-hairy young branches, lance-shaped leaves, and cylindrical white flowers in small groups at the ends of the branches.
Epacris mucronulata is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has many branches, the young stems softly-hairy. Its leaves are lance-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are arranged in small clusters in leaf axils near the ends of branches on a pedicel long with egg-shaped bracts at the base. The five sepals are lance-shaped to narrowly egg-shaped and about long. The petals are white, joined at the base to form a cylindrical tube, the style and anthers enclosed inside the petal tube.[1]
Epacris mucronulata was first formally described in 1810 by Robert in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.[2] [3] The specific epithet (mucronulata) means "having a small sharp point".[4]
This epacris grows near rivers, especially in rainforest and is found in the south-west of Tasmania, including near the Huon and Gordon Rivers.[5]