Erect shrub. Branchlets white hairy. Leaves crowded, ovate, same colour on both surfaces, more or less stalkless. Flowers axillary, solitary, crowded at the branch tips. Corolla tube cylindrical, lobes spreading overlapping and contorted in bud. Ovary with 5 chambers each with several ovules. Fruit a loculicidal capsule.

Cuttings.

Fruit a capsule; style attached in ovary depression; flower lobes contorted in the bud.

1 Australian endemic species from Pigeon House Mountain in New South Wales north to Queensland.

Source: Spencer, R. (1997). Epacridaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.