Epacris pauciflora A.Rich.
Slender erect shrub to ± 2 m. tall, sts reduced; branches often fascicled, erect, ± virgate; branchlets puberulous when young. Lvs ascending, close-set, coriac., glab., often tinted red, on very short petioles; 4-7-(10) × 1-2 mm., ovate to rhomboid-ovate to oblong-ovate, concavo-convex, becoming patent, veins obscure; apex narrowed acuminately to blunt apiculus. Fls solitary, axillary, aggregated towards tips of branchlets, on peduncles c. 1·5 mm. long. Corolla white, lobes patent, broad-oblong, obtuse to subacute. Capsule ± 1·5 mm. long, subglobose, lobed; locules 5.
DIST.: N., S. Lowland and lower montane open shrubland, fernland, bog, from near North Cape to lat. 42º. Local south of lat. 37º 30'. May be found in fl. and fr. most of year. Type locality; Bay of Island. Type:?
