Styphelia angustifolia

Styphelia angustifolia is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with lance-shaped to narrowly egg-shaped leaves and pale green, pendent flowers in summer.

Description

Styphelia angustifolia is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to about, its branchlets velvety-hairy. The leaves are lance-shaped to narrowly egg-shaped, long, wide on a petiole up to long. The flowers are pendent with glabrous bracteoles long at the base. The sepals are long and the petals form a tube long, the lobes long. The stamen filaments are long. Flowering mainly occurs from December to February and the fruit is long and ridged.

Taxonomy

Styphelia angustifolia was first formally described in 1839 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in his Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis. The specific epithet means "narrow-leaved".

Distribution and habitat

This styphelia grows in forest on sandstone, mainly from the lower Blue Mountains to Pigeon House Mountain, but also in the Warialda district, in eastern New South Wales.