Epacris tasmanica

Epacris tasmanica is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to Tasmania. It is an erect shrub with lance-shaped leaves and tube-shaped white flowers crowded in upper leaf axils.

Description
Epacris tasmanica is an erect, sometimes bushy shrub that grows to a height of up to 2 m but typically less than 1 m, and has few branches, the stems and branchlets hairy when young. Its leaves are spreading, lance-shaped, 3–8 mm long, 2.0–3.5 mm wide and sharply pointed, on a petiole less than 0.5 mm long. The flowers are clustered near the ends of branches on pedicels 1.0–2.8 mm long with creamy-white bracts at the base. The sepals are about 3–7 mm long, lance-shaped and about the same length as the petal tube. The petal tube is bell-shaped, 2.5–5 mm long with lobes 3.5–5.5 mm long.

Taxonomy
Epacris tasmanica was first formally described in 1969 by Winifred Curtis in the journal Taxon.

Distribution
This epacris is endemic to Tasmania where it is common and widespread in the east of the state, where it grows in stony soil at low altitudes.