Styphelia longifolia, commonly known as long-leaf styphelia,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with more or less lance-shaped leaves and pale green or yellow flowers arranged singly in leaf axils.
Styphelia longifolia is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of, its branchlets covered with silky hairs. The leaves are more or less lance-shaped, long, wide on a petiole up to long, tapering gradually to a long, fine point. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils with glabrous bracteoles long. The flowers are pale green or yellow, the sepals long and the petals form a tube long with bearded lobes long. The stamen filaments are long. Flowering mainly occurs from May to July and the fruit is long.[2] [3] [4]
Styphelia longifolia was first described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.[5] [6] The specific epithet (longifolia) means "long-leaved".[7]
This styphelia grows in open forest or woodland on sandy soil between Waterfall and Broken Bay.