Epacris heteronema

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|image = Epacris heteronema.jpg

|image_caption = In the Australian National Botanic Gardens

|status = LC

|status_system = IUCN3.1

|status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=IUCN SSC Global Tree Specialist Group. |author2=Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI). |year=2021 |title=Epacris heteronema |volume=2021 |page=e.T200350733A200350735 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T200350733A200350735.en |access-date=19 June 2022}}

|genus = Epacris

|species = heteronema

|authority = Labill.{{cite web|title=Epacris heteronema|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/77708|publisher=Australian Plant Census|access-date=17 June 2022}}

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Epacris heteronema is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to Tasmania. It is an erect shrub with many branches, that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|0.6–6|m}}. Its leaves are egg-shaped with an often heart-shaped base and a sharply-pointed tip. The flowers are arranged singly in a few leaf axils near the ends of the branches and are white and tube-shaped, with lobes about the same length as the petal tube.{{cite book |last1=Rodway |first1=Leonard |title=The Tasmanian Flora |date=1903 |publisher=Tasmanian Government Printer |location=Hobart |page=121 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37374889#page/181/mode/1up |access-date=18 June 2022}}

Epacris heteronema was first formally described in 1805 by Jacques Labillardière in his Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen.{{cite web|title=Epacris heteronema |url=https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/491958 |publisher=APNI|accessdate=17 June 2022}}{{cite book |last1=Labillardière |first1=Jacques |title=Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen |date=1805 |volume=1 |location=Paris |page=42 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/126969#page/41/mode/1up |access-date=17 June 2022}}

This epacris grows in heath and is widely distributed in the south and south-west of Tasmania.{{cite web |last1=Jordan |first1=Greg |title=Epacris heteronema |url=https://www.utas.edu.au/dicotkey/dicotkey/EPACRIDS/sEpacris_heteronema.htm |publisher=University of Tasmania |access-date=17 June 2022}}