Slender, erect shrub to c. 1.6 m high. Branchlets tomentose. Leaves crowded, erect to spreading, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 5–13 mm long, 0.6–3 mm wide, glabrous, flat or concave, mid-vein keeled toward apex beneath, otherwise venation ± obscure; apex acuminate, mucronate; margins minutely serrulate; base cuneate; petiole absent or to c. 1 mm long. Flowers subsessile in axils forming terminal clusters or crowded along the upper 10 cm or more of branches; bracts 13–30; sepals lanceolate, 4.5–7.5 mm long, acuminate; corolla white, tubular to narrowly campanulate, tube 4.5–8 mm long, equal to or slightly exceeding the calyx, puberulent internally, lobes 2.7–4 mm long, obtuse; anthers enclosed; ovary puberulent, nectary scales narrowly triangular, style slightly thicker and pubescent in middle third, 5.5–7.5 mm long. Flowers mostly Aug.–Jan.
GleP, VVP, GipP, OtP, WaP, GGr, EGL, EGU, WPro, OtR, Strz, VAlp. Also NSW, Tas. Occurs in wet heathland, wet scrub and heathy forest-woodland at low elevations.
Source:
Albrecht, D.E. (1996). Epacridaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 464–509. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
