Styphelia angustifolia explained

Styphelia angustifolia is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with lance-shaped to narrowly egg-shaped leaves and pale green, pendent flowers in summer.

Description

Styphelia angustifolia is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to about, its branchlets velvety-hairy. The leaves are lance-shaped to narrowly egg-shaped, long, wide on a petiole up to long. The flowers are pendent with glabrous bracteoles long at the base. The sepals are long and the petals form a tube long, the lobes long. The stamen filaments are long. Flowering mainly occurs from December to February and the fruit is long and ridged.[1] [2]

Taxonomy

Styphelia angustifolia was first formally described in 1839 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in his Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis.[3] [4] The specific epithet (angustifolia) means "narrow-leaved".[5]

Distribution and habitat

This styphelia grows in forest on sandstone, mainly from the lower Blue Mountains to Pigeon House Mountain, but also in the Warialda district, in eastern New South Wales.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Powell . Jocelyn M. . Styphelia angustifolia . Royal Botanic Garden Sydney . 1 September 2023.
  2. Benson . Doug . McDougall . Lyn . Ecology of Sydney plant species Part 3: Dicotyledon families Cabombaceae to Eupomatiaceae . Cunninghamia . 1995 . 4 . 2 . 386 . 1 September 2023.
  3. Web site: Styphelia angustifolia. APNI. 1 September 2023.
  4. Book: de Candolle . Augustin P. . de Candolle . Augustin P. . Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis . 7 . 1839 . Paris . 735 . 1 September 2023.
  5. Book: Sharr . Francis Aubi . George . Alex . Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings . 2019 . Four Gables Press . Kardinya, WA . 9780958034180 . 133 . 3rd.