Epacris lanuginosa

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Woolly-style heath
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Epacris
Species:
E. lanuginosa
Binomial name
Epacris lanuginosa
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Epacris lanuginosa, commonly known as woolly-style heath, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a slender, erect shrub with hairy branchlets, linear to lance-shaped leaves, and tube-shaped, white flowers crowded along the ends of the branches.

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Description

Epacris lanuginosa is a slender, erect shrub that typically growing to a height of up to about 1.6 m (5 ft 3 in)and has woolly-hairy branchlets. The leaves are crowded, linear to lance-shaped, 5–13 mm (0.20–0.51 in) long, 0.6–3 mm (0.024–0.118 in) wide and sessile or on a petiole up to 1 mm (0.039 in) long. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches or along the upper 10 cm (3.9 in) of the branches in leaf axils, each flower with up to thirteen to thirty bracts at the base. The sepals are lance-shaped, 4.5–7.5 mm (0.18–0.30 in) long, the petal tube cylindrical to narrowly bell-shaped, 4.5–8 mm (0.18–0.31 in) long with lobes 2.7–4 mm (0.11–0.16 in) long. The anthers are enclosed in the petal tube. Flowering mainly occurs from August to January. [2] [3] [4]

Taxonomy

Epacris lanuginosa was first formally described in 1805 by Jacques Labillardière in his Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen . [5] [6] The specific epithet (lanuginosa) means "abounding in wool". [7]

Distribution and habitat

Woolly-style heath is common in boggy places in Tasmania, but also occurs in wet heath, scrub and forest at low elevations, in southern and western Victoria and the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales. [2] [3] [4]

Ecology

Epacris lanuginosa is susceptible to the exotic fungal rot root disease caused by Phytophthora cinnamomi . [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Epacris lanuginosa". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 Albrecht, David E. "Epacris lanuginosa". Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
  3. 1 2 Brown, Elizabeth A. "Epacris lanuginosa". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
  4. 1 2 Jordan, Greg. "Epacris lanuginosa". University of Tasmania. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
  5. ↑ "Epacris lanuginosa". APNI. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
  6. ↑ Labillardière, Jacques (1805). Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen. Paris. p. 42. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
  7. ↑ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 234. ISBN   9780958034180.
  8. ↑ Schahinger, R; Rudman, T; Wardlaw, T.J (2003). "Conservation of Tasmanian Plant Species & Communities threatened by Phytophthora cinnamomi" (PDF). Strategic Regional Plan for Tasmania. 03 (3).
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