Epacris petrophila

Erect shrub to c. 80 cm high. Branchlets densely covered with short retrorse hairs. Leaves suberect to appressed, ovate to obovate, 1.4–3.2 mm long, 0.8–1.5 mm wide, glabrous, ± planoconvex in section, slightly keeled beneath, venation obscure; apex tapered to a subacute or obtuse ± incurved tip; margins smooth or minutely serrulate; base obtuse to cuneate, appressed to stem; petiole indistinct, 0.1–0.2 mm long. Flowers subsessile, forming small terminal clusters to l cm long; bracts 8–10; sepals ovate, 2–3 mm long, subacute; corolla white, campanulate, glabrous, tube 1.3–2 mm long, slightly shorter than calyx, lobes recurved, 1.8–2.5 mm long, obtuse; anthers partly exserted; ovary glabrous; nectary scales truncate; style straight-sided, 0.3–0.6 mm long, glabrous. Flowers Dec.–Feb.