Melichrus erubescens, commonly known as ruby urn-heath,[2] is a flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia.

Melichrus erubescens is a slender to compact, bushy shrub that typically grows to a height of 30–120 cm (12–47 in).

Flowering occurs from February to October, but mainly in September, and the fruit is a red, more or less spherical drupe 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long and finely ribbed.

[2] Melichrus erubescens was first formally described in 1839 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in his in Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis from an unpublished description by Allan Cunningham.

[3][4] Ruby urn-heath grows in forest, woodland and scrub on ridge tops and rocky outcrops between the Warrumbungle National Park Grenfell and Cowra in New South Wales and in south-eastern Queensland.