Epacris gnidioides
Epacris gnidioides, commonly known as Budawangs cliff-heath, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales. It is a small, creeping shrub with hairy branches, sharply-pointed lance-shaped leaves, and tube-shaped, white flowers. Description Epacris gnidioides is a creeping, rhizome-forming shrub with branches up to long. Its leaves are lance-shaped, long and wide on a petiole about long. The leaves are thin, concave and covered with long, soft hairs. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils on a pedicel long, the sepals long. The petals are white and form a tube long, the lobes long and tapered. Flowering occurs from September to February and the fruit is a capsule about long. Taxonomy This species was first formally described in 1927 by Victor Samuel Summerhayes who gave it the name Rupicola gnidioides in the Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information from specimens collected in 1927 by Frederick A. Rodway near the Ettrema River, south west of Nowra in a "cleft in sandstone cliff". In 2015, Elizabeth Anne Brown changed the name to Epacris gnidioides in Australian Systematic Botany. In 1992, Ian Telford raised the genus Budawangia and changed the name