Epacris apiculata

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 1 m long, the branchlets covered with white hairs. The leaves are egg-shaped with a thickened, pointed tip, mostly 3–10 mm long and 2.5–7 mm wide and glabrous. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils on a peduncle 1.5–2.0 mm long, the sepals 2.4–3.9 mm long. The petals are white and joined at the base, forming a tube 1.2–3.5 mm long with lobes 2.4–5 mm long. The anthers are 1–2 mm long and the style is 4–6 mm long. Flowering occurs from October to January and the fruit is a glabrous capsule about 1.2 mm long.

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. The specific epithet (apiculata) means "ending abruptly in a small point".

Distribution and habitat
This epacris grows in damp places on rock ledges at altitudes between 700 and 1100 m in the Blue Mountains of eastern New South Wales.