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Epacridaceae – heaths
The ANHAT database has 121043 records for 463 species and subspecies of
Epacridaceae. Two species of Epacridaceae are considered extinct and therefore
excluded from analysis. These species are presented in
Table 68.
Table 68 Epacridaceae species considered extinct
Species Common name No. of records
Leucopogon cryptanthus 1
Coleanthera virgata 1
Twenty species account for approximately 50% of the total species records in
ANHAT (Table 69). These species have over 1000 records each, and, in the case of
the Epacris impressa, over 9900 records.
Table 69 Epacridaceae species that account for approximately 50% of the total
species records in ANHAT.
Species
No. Records
% total
records
Leucopogon rufus 1025 0.85
Acrotriche patula 1144 0.95
Epacris paludosa 1185 0.98
Acrotriche aggregata 1203 0.99
Acrotriche prostrata 1214 1.00
Epacris obtusifolia 1226 1.01
Sprengelia incarnata 1333 1.10
Epacris microphylla 1383 1.14
Lissanthe strigosa subulata 1536 1.27
Melichrus urceolatus 1774 1.47
Leucopogon ericoides 1989 1.64
Leucopogon parviflorus 3082 2.55
Astroloma conostephioides 3454 2.85
Brachyloma daphnoides 3606 2.98
Leucopogon lanceolatus 4009 3.31
Monotoca scoparia 4295 3.55
Leucopogon virgatus 4817 3.98
Astroloma humifusum 6504 5.37
Acrotriche serrulata 6602 5.45
Epacris impressa 9937 8.21
Total 61318 50.65
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