Epacris franklinii

Location & distribution maps

Phylogeny & links to associated information:

Wikipedia links:       Angiosperms  > Eudicots > Asterids > Ericales > Ericaceae > Epacris 

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Plant  information

Common name:                unknown  

Conservation status:  unknown

Etymology:   

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Flowers:                  

• The flowers are arranged in a few leaf axils near the ends of branches, the sepals egg-shaped, about 4 mm long

• The petal tube slightly longer than the sepals and with shorter lobes, the anthers enclosed in the petal tube

Fruit:                         

• x

Leaves:         

• The leaves are lance-shaped or elliptic, 8–11 mm long and 1.3–1.4 mm  wide 

• On a petiole about 1 mm long 

• Has minute teeth on the edges

Stem & branches: 

• x

Roots:         

• x

Habit:        

• An erect, spreading shrub that grows up to 2 m  high and has more or less glabrous stems

Habitat:   

• Inundated riverbanks

Distribution:                  

• Endemic to Tasmania

• Grows on the banks of the Meander, Mersey, Pieman, Maxwell, Gordon, Franklin and King River systems in north-western Tasmania where it is periodically inundated  

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy and naming

  • Epacris franklinii was first formally described in 1857 by Joseph Dalton Hooker in The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 

  • Specimens collected on the banks of the Franklin River in Macquarie Harbour by Ronald Campbell Gunn

Sources of information:

• (2023)