''Epacris virgata'' is a species of flowering plant in the heath

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Ericaceae and is

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to Tasmania. It was first formally described in 1847 by Joseph Dalton Hooker in the ''London Journal of Botany''.

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virgata Ericales of Australia Flora of Tasmania Plants described in 1847 Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker {{Australia-eudicot-stub