Styphelia conchifolia is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrublet with many branches, more or less round leaves near the ends of branchlets, and white, tube-shaped flowers arranged near the ends of leafy twigs.
Styphelia conchifolia is an erect, slender shrublet that typically grows to a height of and has many branches. The leaves are more or less round, long and wide on a petiole about long. The flowers are arranged singly, in pairs or threes in leaf axils near the ends of branchlets, with small egg-shaped, pale green bracts and broadly egg-shaped to round bracteoles. The sepals are triangular, about long, the petals white and joined at the base to form a tube long, the lobes slightly longer than the petal tube and densely bearded on the inside. Flowering peaks in mid-March.[1]
Styphelia conchifolia was first formally described in 1986 by Arne Strid in the journal Willdenowia from specimens he collected in the Fitzgerald River National Park in 1983.[2] In 2020, Michael Hislop, Darren M. Crayn and Caroline Puente-Lelievre transferred the species to Styphelia as S. conchifolia. The specific epithet (conchifolia) means "oyster shell-leaved".[3]
This styphelia grows in heath in the Esperance Plains bioregion of south-western Western Australia.
Styphelia conchifolia is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.