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''Styphelia'' is a genus of shrubs in the family
Ericaceae The Ericaceae () are a Family (biology), family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family, found most commonly in acidic and infertile growing conditions. The family is large, with about 4,250 known species spread acros ...
, native from
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through the Pacific to Australia. Most have minute or small leaves with a sharp tip, single, tube-shaped flowers arranged in leaf
axil A leaf (: leaves) is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally above ground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", while the leaves, stem, fl ...
s and with the ends of the petals rolled back with hairs in the inside of the tube.


Description

Plants in the genus ''Styphelia'' are usually erect or spreading shrubs that have egg-shaped, elliptical or oblong, more or less
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leaves with many fine, almost parallel veins and a sharp point on the tip. The flowers are usually arranged singly in leaf axils with small
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s grading to larger bracteoles at the base and five, usually coloured
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s. The
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s are fused to form a cylindrical tube with their tips rolled back. The inside of the petal tube is hairy and the five
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s and thread-like
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extend beyond the end of the tube. The fruit is a
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with a dry or slightly fleshy
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and a hard
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Taxonomy and naming

The genus ''Styphelia'' was first formally described in 1793 by James Edward Smith in his book ''
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''. The name ''Styphelia'' is from an
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word meaning "tough" or "harsh", referring to the "stiff, prickly leaves and general habit" of the genus.


Species list

The following is a list of species of ''Styphelia'' accepted by
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'' ( Hislop & A.J.G.Wilson) Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia acuminata'' ( R.Br.) Spreng. (N.T.) * '' Styphelia adscendens'' R.Br. - golden heath (N.S.W., S.A., Vic., Tas.) * '' Styphelia allittii'' (F.Muell.) F.Muell. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia angustiflora'' Hislop & Puente-Lel. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia angustifolia'' DC. (N.S.W.) * '' Styphelia annulata'' Hislop (W.A.) * ''
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'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia appressa'' (R.Br.) Spreng. (N.S.W., Qld., Vic.) * '' Styphelia attenuata'' (
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– grey beard-heath (N.S.W., Qld., Vic.) * '' Styphelia balansae'' Virot (New Caledonia) * '' Styphelia biflora'' (R.Br.) Spreng. (N.S.W., Qld., Vic.) * '' Styphelia blackallii'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia blakei'' Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. (Qld.) * '' Styphelia blepharolepis'' F.Muell. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia brachygyna'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia bracteolosa'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia brevicuspis'' (
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(W.A.) * '' Styphelia breviflora'' (F.Muell.) F.Muell. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia browniae'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia capillaris'' Hislop & Puente-Lel. – Horts' styphelia (W.A.) * '' Styphelia carolineae'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia caudata'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia cernua'' Hislop & Puente-Lel. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia chlorantha'' Hislop & A.J.G.Wilson (W.A.) * '' Styphelia ciliosa'' Hislop & Puente-Lel. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia clelandii'' ( Cheel) J.H.Willis – Cleland's bearded-heath (S.A., Vic.) * '' Styphelia coelophylla'' (A.Cunn. ex DC.) Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia cognata'' A.R.Bean (Qld.) * '' Styphelia compacta'' (R.Br.) Spreng. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia conchifolia'' ( Strid) Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia concinna'' (Benth.) F.Muell. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia conferta'' (Benth.) F.Muell. – Torrington beard-heath (N.S.W., Qld.) * '' Styphelia conostephioides'' (DC.) F.Muell. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia cordifolia'' ( Lindl.) F.Muell. – heart-leaved beard-heath (N.S.W., S.A., Vic., W.A.) * '' Styphelia corynocarpa'' (Sond.) F.Muell. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia coryphila'' ( Guillaumin)
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(New Caledonia) * '' Styphelia crassiflora'' F.Muell. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia crassifolia'' (Sond.) F.Muell. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia cuspidata'' (R.Br.) Spreng. (Qld.) * '' Styphelia cymbiformis'' (A.Cunn. ex DC.) F.Muell. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia cymbulae'' ( Labill.) Spreng. (Fiji, New Caledonia, Vanuatu) * '' Styphelia cylindrica'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia dammarifolia'' ( Brongn. & Gris) F.Muell. (New Caledonia) * '' Styphelia decussata'' Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia deformis'' (R.B.) Spreng. (N.S.W., Qld.) * '' Styphelia densifolia'' Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia deserticola'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia dielsiana'' ( E.Pritz.)
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(W.A.) * '' Styphelia discolor'' (Sond.) Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia disjuncta'' Hislop & Puente-Lel. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia echinulata'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia enervia'' (Guillaumin) Sleumer (New Caledonia) * '' Styphelia epacridis'' (DC.) F.Muell. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia erectifolia'' Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia ericoides'' Sm. – pink beard-heath (N.S.W., Qld., S.A., Tas., Vic.) * '' Styphelia erubescens'' F.Muell. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia esquamata'' (R.Br.) Spreng. – swamp beard-heath (N.S.W., Qld., Tas., Vic.) * '' Styphelia exarata'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia exarrhena'' (F.Muell.) F.Muell. - desert styphelia (S.A., Vic.) * ''
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'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia exolasia'' F.Muell. – Woronora beard-heath (N.S.W.) * '' Styphelia exserta'' (F.Muell.) Sleumer (W.A.) * '' Styphelia filamentosa'' Hislop & Puente-Lel. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia filifolia'' Hislop & Puente-Lel. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia flavescens'' (Sond.) F.Muell. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia fletcheri'' (
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(N.S.W., Qld., Vic.) * '' Styphelia flexifolia'' (R.Br.) Spreng. (Qld.) * '' Styphelia foliosa'' (Sond.) Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia forbesii'' Sleumer (
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) * '' Styphelia geniculata'' Crayn (Qld.) * '' Styphelia glaucifolia'' ( W.Fitzg.) Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia globosa'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia grandiflora'' ( Pedley) Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. (Qld.) * '' Styphelia graniticola'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia hainesii'' F.Muell. (W.A.) * ''
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'' (E.Pritz.) Sleumer (W.A.) * '' Styphelia hispida'' (E.Pritz.) Sleumer (W.A.) * '' Styphelia howatharra'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia humifusa'' ( Cav.)
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'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia imbricata'' (R.Br.) Spreng. (Qld.) * ''
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'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia inframediana'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia inopinata'' (Hislop) Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia insularis'' (A.Cunn. ex DC.) Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia intertexta'' A.S.George (W.A.) * ''
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'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia javanica'' ( Zoll. & Moritzi) J.J.Sm. (Java) * '' Styphelia kalbarriensis'' Hislop & E.A.Br. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia kingiana'' F.Muell. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia laeta'' R.Br. (N.S.W.) – five corners * '' Styphelia lanata'' Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia lavarackii'' (Pedley) Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. (Qld.) * '' Styphelia leptantha'' (Benth.) F.Muell. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia leptospermoides'' (R.Br.) Spreng. (N.S.W., Qld.) * '' Styphelia lissanthoides'' (F.Muell.) F.Muell. (S.A., W.A.) * '' Styphelia longifolia'' R.Br. – long-leaf styphelia (N.S.W.) * '' Styphelia longissima'' Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia longistylis'' (Brongn. & Gris) Sleumer (New Caledonia) * '' Styphelia lucens'' A.R.Bean (Qld.) * '' Styphelia macrocalyx'' (Sond.) F.Muell. – Swan berry (W.A.) * '' Styphelia macrocarpa'' ( Schltr.) Sleumer (New Caledonia) * '' Styphelia madida'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia malayana'' (
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(Borneo, Cambodia, Malaya, Myanmar, New Guinea, Sumatra, Thailand, Vietnam) * '' Styphelia margarodes'' (R.Br.) Spreng. (N.S.W., Qld.) * '' Styphelia marginata'' (W.Fitzg.) Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. – thick-margined leucopogon (W.A.) * '' Styphelia melaleucoides'' F.Muell. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia microcalyx'' (Sond.) F.Muell. native cranberry (W.A.) * '' Styphelia microdonta'' (F.Muell. ex Benth) F.Muell. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia mitchellii'' (Benth.) F.Muell. (Qld.) * '' Styphelia multiflora'' Spreng. (
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, N.S.W., Vic., W.A.) * '' Styphelia mutica'' (R.Br.) F.Muell. – blunt beard-heath (N.S.W., Qld.) * '' Styphelia nana'' ( M.I.Dawson & Heenan) Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. ( New Zealand South Island) * '' Styphelia neoanglica'' (F.Muell. ex Benth.) F.Muell. – New England beard heath (N.S.W., Qld.) * '' Styphelia nesophila'' (DC.) Sleumer – sharp beard-heath, pātōtara, dwarf mingimingi (N.S.W., New Zealand, Tasmania, Victoria) * '' Styphelia nitens'' Sleumer (W.A.) * '' Styphelia oblongifolia'' (A.J.G.Wilson & Hislop) Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia obtecta'' (Benth.) F.Muell. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia pallens'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia pallida'' (R.Br.) Spreng. – kick bush (W.A.) * '' Styphelia pancheri'' (Brongn. & Gris) F.Muell. (New Caledonia) * '' Styphelia papillosa'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia pendula'' (R.Br.) Spreng. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia pentapogona'' F.Muell. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia perileuca'' J.M.Powell - montane green five-corners (N.S.W.) * '' Styphelia piliflora'' Crayn (Qld.) * '' Styphelia planiconvexa'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia planifolia'' (Sond.) Sleumer (W.A.) * '' Styphelia platyneura'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia pogonocalyx'' (F.Muell. ex Benth.) F.Muell. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia propinqua'' (R.Br.) Spreng. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia prostrata'' (R.Br.) F.Muell. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia psiloclada'' J.M.Powell (N.S.W.) * '' Styphelia psilopus'' ( Stschegl.) Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia pubescens'' ( S.Moore) Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia quartzitica'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia racemulosa'' (DC.) F.Muell. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia rectiloba'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia recurva'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia recurvisepala'' ( C.T.White) Sleumer (N.S.W., Qld.) * '' Styphelia retrorsa'' Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia rigida'' (A.Cunn. ex DC.) Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia riparia'' ( N.A.Wakef.) J.H.Willis (Vic.) * '' Styphelia roseola'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia rotundifolia'' (R.Br.) Spreng. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia rufa'' (Lindl.) F.Muell. – spoon-leaf beard-heath, ruddy bearded-heath (N.S.W., S.A., Vic.) * '' Styphelia rupicola'' (C.T.White) Sleumer (Qld.) * '' Styphelia ruscifolia'' (R.Br.) Spreng. (N.T., Qld.) * '' Styphelia saxicola'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia scabrella'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia serratifolia'' (DC.) Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. (W.A.) * ''
Styphelia setigera ''Styphelia setigera'' is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales. It is an erect to spreading shrub with lance-shaped to elliptic leaves, and white, tube-shaped flowers arranged singl ...
'' (R.Br.) Spreng. (N.S.W., Vic.) * '' Styphelia sieberi'' (DC.) Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. – prickly beard-heath (N.S.W., Qld., Vic.) * '' Styphelia sonderensis'' (J.H.Willis) Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. – Mount Sonder beard-heath (N.T.) * '' Styphelia stomarrhena'' (Sond.) Sleumer – red swamp cranberry (W.A.) * '' Styphelia striata'' (R.Br.) Spreng. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia strongylophylla'' (F.Muell.) F.Muell. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia subglauca'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia subulata'' (F.Muell.) Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia sulcata'' Hislop & Puente-Lel. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia tamminensis'' (E.Pritz.) Sleumer (W.A.) * '' Styphelia tecta'' (R.Br.) Spreng. (W.A) * '' Styphelia tenuiflora'' Lindl. - common pinheath (W.A.) * '' Styphelia tortifolia'' Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia trichostyla'' (J.M.Powell) Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. – daphne heath (N.S.W., Qld.) * '' Styphelia triflora''
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Styphelia tubiflora ''Styphelia tubiflora'', commonly known as red five-corners, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales. It is an erect to spreading shrub with oblong to egg-shaped leaves with the narr ...
'' Sm. - red five-corners (N.S.W.) * ''
Styphelia undulata ''Styphelia'' is a genus of shrubs in the family Ericaceae, native from Indo-China through the Pacific to Australia. Most have minute or small leaves with a sharp tip, single, tube-shaped flowers arranged in leaf axils and with the ends ...
'' Hislop (W.A.) * '' Styphelia veillonii'' Virot (New Caledonia) * '' Styphelia viridis'' Andrews – green five corners (N.S.W., Qld.) * '' Styphelia wetarensis'' J.J.Sm. (Lesser Sunda Island) * '' Styphelia williamsiorum'' Hislop & Puente-Lel. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia woodsii'' (F.Muell.) F.Muell. – nodding beard-heath (S.A., Vic., W.A.) * '' Styphelia xerophylla'' (DC.) F.Muell. (W.A.) * '' Styphelia yorkensis'' (Pedley) Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel. (Qld.)


Distribution

Species of ''Styphelia'' occur in all Australian mainland states, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory. Other species are found northwards to
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References

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