''Styphelia crassifolia'' is a plant in the family Ericaceae native to Western Australia. It was first described in 1845 as ''Leucopogon crassifolius'' by Otto Wilhelm Sonder. In 1867

Ferdinand von Mueller Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (german: Müller; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Vict ...

transferred it to the genus, ''

Styphelia ''Styphelia'' is a genus of shrubs in the family Ericaceae, native from Mainland Southeast Asia, Indo-China through the Pacific to Australia. Most have minute or small leaves with a sharp tip, single, tube-shaped flowers arranged in leaf wikt:a ...

'', but the accepted name continued to be ''Leucopogon crassifolius''. However, in 2020, with a publication concerning the phylogeny of ''

'' by Crayn and others, the name ''Styphelia crassifolia'' was accepted by the Herbarium of Western Australia. (The

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH) is an association of the leaders of herbaria in Australia and New Zealand. It is governed by a constitution. It endorses the taxonomy and nomenclature of the Australian Plant Census, which is the so ...

still (May 2020) lists ''Leucopogon crassifolius'' as the accepted name.)

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crassifolia Ericales of Australia Flora of Western Australia Plants described in 1845 Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller {{Australia-asterid-stub