Kingdom Plantae Family Ericaceae Scientific name Epacris glacialis | Order Ericales Genus Epacris Rank Species | |
Epacris glacialis is a plant species of the genus Epacris. It is endemic to Australia. The species forms a prostrate or decumbent shrub, between 5 and 30 cm high. The leaves are crowded on the branchlets and are 2 to 4 mm long and 1.5 to 2.5 mm wide. White flowers appear in small clusters between December and January in the species native range.
It occurs near streams and bogs on rocky slopes ranging southward from Kosciuszko National Park in New South Wales and into Victoria.
The species was originally described as a subspecies of Epacris heteronema by botanist Ferdinand von Mueller who gave it the name Epacris heteronema var. glacialis in his 1868 paper Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae
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