Styphelia kingiana 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, compact shrub with sharply pointed, egg-shaped leaves, and white, tube-shaped flowers arranged in clusters near the ends of branchlets.
Styphelia kingiana is an erect, compact shrub that typically grows to a height of and has densely hairy young branches. Its leaves are sharply-pointed, egg-shaped, long and wide. The flowers are borne in clusters near the ends of branchlets, extending past the leaves. There are egg-shaped, fleshy bracts long and 3 or 4 almost round bracteoles long at the base of the flowers. The sepals are egg-shaped, long and pale yellowish-green. The petals are joined at the base to form a yellowish-green tube long with white, spreading lobes long. Flowering occurs in August and September and the fruit is dry, long and wide.[1]
Styphelia kingiana was first described in 1893 by Ferdinand von Mueller in The Victorian Naturalist from specimens collected near Lake Deborah (near Koolynobbing).[2] [3] The specific epithet (kingiana) honours Henry John King.[4]
This styphelia occurs in sandy soils in open heath or low open woodland in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Mallee and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
Styphelia kingiana is listed as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.