Epacris obtusifolia

Erect, typically few-stemmed shrub to c. 1 m high. Branchlets pubescent. Leaves crowded, ascending, oblong-elliptic, 3.5–11 mm long, 1–2.8 mm wide, glabrous, ± flat, 1–3-nerved beneath, midvein often slightly keeled; apex obtuse, incurved; margins smooth to minutely serrulate; base cuneate; petiole 0.5–1 mm long. Flowers shortly pedicellate in axils, often secund, extending down branches for up to c. 15 cm; bracts 13–24; sepals ovate-elliptic, 3.5–5.5 mm long, obtuse; corolla white to cream, tubular to narrowly campanulate, tube 4–6.5 mm long, exceeding calyx, glabrous, lobes 1.5–2.2 mm long, obtuse; anthers enclosed; ovary glabrous, nectary scales narrowly triangular, style straight-sided or slightly thicker in middle third, glabrous, 2.6–5 mm long. Flowers Sep.–Dec.