Epacris myrtifolia

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|genus = Epacris

|species = myrtifolia

|authority = Labill.{{cite web|title=Epacris myrtifolia|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/79182|publisher=Australian Plant Census|access-date=22 June 2022}}

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Epacris myrtifolia is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to Tasmania. It is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|15–50|cm}}. Its leaves are thick, crowded, egg-shaped with a small, blunt point on the tip, and {{cvt|4.2–8.5|mm}} long. The flowers are arranged singly in a few upper leaf axils with many leathery bracts at the base. The sepals are leathery, about {{cvt|4.2|mm}} long, the petal tube slightly shorter than the sepals with lobes about the same length, the anthers protruding slightly from 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=22 June 2022}}{{cite book |last1=Bentham |first1=George |last2=von Mueller |first2=Ferdinand |title=Flora Australiensis |volume=4 |date=1868 |publisher=Lovell Reeve & Co. |location=London |page=238 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11266459#page/247/mode/1up |access-date=22 June 2022}}

Epacris heteronema was first formally described in 1805 by Jacques Labillardière in his Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen.{{cite web|title=Epacris myrtifolia |url=https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/494308 |publisher=APNI|accessdate=22 June 2022}}{{cite book |last1=Labillardière |first1=Jacques |title=Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen |date=1805 |volume=1 |location=Paris |page=41 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/126969#page/40/mode/1up |access-date=22 June 2022}}

This epacris grows in exposed coastal scrub in the south-east of Tasmania.{{cite web |last1=Jordan |first1=Greg |title=Epacris myrtifolia |url=https://www.utas.edu.au/dicotkey/dicotkey/EPACRIDS/sEpacris_myrtifolia.htm |publisher=University of Tasmania |access-date=22 June 2022}}