Biology:Epacris marginata
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Short description: Species of flowering plant
| Epacris marginata | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Epacris |
| Species: | E. marginata
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| Binomial name | |
| Epacris marginata Melville[1]
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Epacris marginata is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to Tasmania. It is an erect shrub with overlapping, bluish, sharply-pointed, egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves with transparent edges, and white, tube-shaped flowers, the petals with lobes 3–5 mm (0.12–0.20 in) long and 2.5–3.0 mm (0.098–0.118 in) wide.[2][3]
Epacris marginata was first formally described in 1952 by Ronald Melville in the Kew Bulletin from specimens collected by Janet Somerville on the "slopes of Brown Mountain, Tasman Peninsula" in 1946.[2][4]
This epacris is restricted to the Tasman Peninsula in Tasmania.[3]
References
- ↑ "Epacris marginata". Australian Plant Census. https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/78913.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Melville, Ronald (1952). "Two Allies of Epacris heteronema Lab.". Kew Bulletin 7 (2): 175–176. doi:10.2307/4109260.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Jordan, Greg. "Epacris marginata". University of Tasmania. https://www.utas.edu.au/dicotkey/dicotkey/EPACRIDS/sEpacris_marginata.htm.
- ↑ "Epacris marginata". APNI. https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/493921. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
Wikidata ☰ Q15377743 entry
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