Epacris franklinii

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Epacris franklinii is a flowering shrub in the heath family (Ericaceae) that is found only in north-western Tasmania. It grows upright and spreading, reaching up to about 2 meters tall, with mostly smooth stems. The leaves are lance-shaped to elliptic, 8–11 mm long and 1.3–1.4 mm wide, on short stalks with tiny teeth along the edges.

The white, tube-shaped flowers appear in a few leaf axils near the ends of branches. The sepals are about 4 mm long, the petal tube is a little longer than the sepals with shorter lobes, and the anthers stay inside the tube.

Epacris franklinii was first formally described in 1857 by Joseph Dalton Hooker from specimens collected on the Franklin River by Ronald Campbell Gunn. It grows along the banks of several north-west Tasmanian rivers, including the Meander, Mersey, Pieman, Maxwell, Gordon, Franklin and King, and these areas can experience periodic flooding.