Epacris rigida
Epacris rigida is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales. It is an erect, bushy shrub with elliptic leaves and white or cream-coloured, tube-shaped flowers. Description
Epacris rigida is an erect, bushy shrub that typically grows to a height of  and forms a lignotuber. It has softly-hairy branchlets, the stems with conspicuous, more or less triangular leaf scars. The leaves are elliptic, rarely oblong,  long and  wide. The flowers are crowded at the ends of branches and are  wide, each flower on a peduncle  long with bracts at the base. The sepals are  long and the petals are white or cream-coloured and joined at the base to form a tube  long with lobes  long. The anthers are visible near the end of the petal tube. Flowering usually in August and September, and the fruit is a capsule about  long. Taxonomy and naming
Epacris rigida was first formally described in 1827 by Kurt Sprengel in Systema Vegetabilium from an unpublished description by Franz Sieber. Distribution and habitat
This epacris grows in heath on exposed sandstone ridges in the Blue Mountains. References

rigida
Ericales of Australia
Flora of New South Wales
Taxa named by Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel
Plants described in 1827