Epacris Cav.
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Nomenclature
Cav.
Cav.
1797
25, t. 344
ICN
Epacris Cav.
genus
Epacris
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Descriptions
Epacris Cav.
Fls 5-merous, axillary, solitary, sessile or shortly peduncled. Bracts ∞, imbricate, investing peduncle. Staminal filaments short, inserted on corolla-tube; anthers not or hardly exserted. Disk hypog., us. of 5 free scales. Ovules ∞, attached to a central placenta; capsule loculicidally dehiscent, seeds ∞. Mostly erect rather rigid shrubs with subsessile crowded lvs. Some 50 mostly Australian spp., with a few in Tasmania, N.Z., New Caledonia. The N.Z. sp. endemic.
Taxonomic concepts
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Metadata
3f5b4d29-759c-4ad0-86e7-a6562d968619
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
21 February 2014