Styphelia imbricata is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to south-east Queensland. It is an erect shrub with glabrous branches, crowded, often overlapping, egg-shaped leaves, and white, bell-shaped flowers that are bearded inside.
Styphelia imbricata is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of about and has widely-spreading, glabrous branches. Its leaves are sessile, egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base and less than long. The leaves are crowded, often overlapping, and have a fine sharp point on the rounded tip. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils on a short peduncle with small bracts and broad bracteoles less than half as long as the sepals. The sepals are about long and the petals white, forming a bell-shaped tube about as long as the sepals, with lobes about as long as the petal tube.[1]
This species was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown who gave it the name Leucopogon imbricatus in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.[2] [3] In 1824, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel transferred the species to Sprengelia and gave it the name S. imbricata. The specific epithet (imbricata) means "imbricate".[4]
This styphelia grows in south-east Queensland.[5]