Epacris rigida is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to south-eastern New South Wales.

It is an erect to spreading shrub with egg-shaped to more or less circular leaves and sweetly-scented, cream-coloured, tube-shaped flowers.

Flowering mostly occurs from August to December, and the fruit is a capsule about 2.5 mm (0.098 in) long.

[2][3] Epacris robusta was first formally described in 1868 by George Bentham in Flora Australiensis from specimens collected by Ferdinand von Mueller near the headwaters of the Genoa River.

[6] This epacris grows in heath or rocky slopes at altitudes above 800 m (2,600 ft) in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, but mainly south of the Tinderry Range.