See text Epacris is a genus of about forty species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae.

[2] The genus Epacris was first formally described in 1797 by Antonio José Cavanilles, who published the description in Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum.

[3] Cavanilles did not specify a type species but in 1983 Edward Groesbeck Voss nominated Epacris longiflora as the lectotype.

The genus name (Epacris) is derived from an Ancient Greek word meaning "on the summit", referring to habitat preference.

[4] Species of Epacris are found in all Australian states except the Northern Territory and Western Australia.