Epacris alpina Hook.F.

Erect or spreading slender shrub up to ± 1 m. tall, often decumbent at base; branches slender, branchlets puberulous towards tips. Lvs close-set, becoming ± paten, coriac., glab., on very short subappressed petioles widening to base, concavo-convex, keeled on back; 3-5 × 1·5-2mm., ovate-oblong to elliptic, obtuse to subactue; midrib stout, veins obscure. Fls solitary, axillary, on short peduncles towards tip of branchlets. Bracts 5-6, broad-ovate, small, increasing upwards to c. 2 mm. long. Fls up to c. 7 mm. long; calyx-lobes obtuse, ciliolate, 2-3 mm. long; corolla white, tube short, lobes spreading, obtuse, ovate-triangular. Stigma capitate, on stout style. Capsule ± 1·5 mm. long, subglobose, 5-lobed; locules 5.