Styphelia setigera is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales. It is an erect to spreading shrub with lance-shaped to elliptic leaves, and white, tube-shaped flowers arranged singly or in pairs in leaf axils, forming a spike long.
Styphelia setigera is an erect to spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are lance-shaped to elliptic, long, wide and sessile, but with a sharply-pointed bristle on the tip. Both sides of the leaves are usually glabrous, the lower surface finely striated. The flowers are borne singly or in pairs in leaf axils forming a spike long, with bracteoles long at the base. The sepals are long, the petals white and joined at the base, forming a tube long, the lobes long and bearded on the inside. Flowering occurs from July to October, and the fruit is about long and glabrous.[1] [2] [3]
This species was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown who gave it the name Leucopogon setiger in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae.[4] [5] In 1824, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel transferred the species to Styphelia as S. setigera in Systema Vegetabilium. The specific epithet (setigera) means "bristle-bearing".[6]
Styphelia setigera grows in shrubby woodland on sandstone, sometimes in heath and wetter areas, and is widespread on the coast and tablelands south from Sydney and the Blue Mountains.