EPACRIDEAE. An order of corollifloral, dicotyledonous, shrubby plants, almost confined to Australia, New Zealand, and the Antarctic islands. Flowers axillary or terminal, either solitary and terminating peduncles more or less covered with imbricated, scale-like or leaf-like bracts, or in spikes or racemes; sepals usually finely marked with parallel or diverging veins; corolla white or of various shades of red, rarely blue, green, or yellowish. Leaves alternate, or very rarely opposite, often crowded or imbricate, rigid, entire or scarcely denticulate, with several longitudinal, simple or forked nerves, sometimes prominent underneath, sometimes very fine and numerous or very obscure. The order is divided into two sections, Epacreae and Styphelieae. There are about twenty-six genera, and 320 species. Well-known genera are: Draco-phyllum, Epacris, Leucopogon, and Styphelia.