Epacris rigida is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to south-eastern New South Wales. It is an erect to spreading shrub with egg-shaped to more or less circular leaves and sweetly-scented, cream-coloured, tube-shaped flowers.
Epacris robusta is an erect to spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of, its branchlets softly-hairy. Its leaves are egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, to more or less rhombic or circular, long and wide on a petiole long and curve downwards. The flowers are borne in groups near the ends of branches and are wide, each flower on a peduncle long with bracts and bracteoles at the base. The flowers are sweetly-scented, the sepals long and the petals cream-coloured, joined at the base to form a tube long with lobes long. Flowering mostly occurs from August to December, and the fruit is a capsule about long.[1] [2]
Epacris robusta was first formally described in 1868 by George Bentham in Flora Australiensis from specimens collected by Ferdinand von Mueller near the headwaters of the Genoa River.[3] [4] The specific epithet (robusta) means "hard" or "firm".[5]
This epacris grows in heath or rocky slopes at altitudes above in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, but mainly south of the Tinderry Range.