Common name: Snow Heath
Epacris petrophila Hook.f. APNI* 
Description: Erect, bushy shrub, sometimes decumbent, 30–60 cm high; stems with inconspicuous leaf scars; branchlets finely pubescent.
Leaves erect to suberect, ovate, ± obovate or elliptic, 1.1–3.3 mm long, 0.7–1.7 mm wide, apex often upturned, base truncate, margins minutely toothed; lamina thick, concave; petiole ± absent.
Flowers in short, leafy, ± terminal clusters, 6–7 mm diam., white, sessile; bracts broad-acute. Sepals 2.2–2.8 mm long. Corolla tube 1.3–2 mm long; lobes 1.4–1.9 mm long. Anthers obvious at throat or half-exserted.
Capsule 1.5 mm long.
Flowering: December–February
Distribution and occurrence: Dominant in alpine and subalpine feldmark, heath and bogs, south from Mt Kosciusko.
NSW subdivisions: ST
Other Australian states: Vic. Tas.
Text by J. M. Powell, except for groups with contributors listed
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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