Styphelia flexifolia
Styphelia flexifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to south-east Queensland. It is a rigid shrub with many softly-hairy branchlets, crowded, sharply-pointed linear to lance-shaped leaves, and small, white, bell-shaped flowers that are bearded inside.
Description
Styphelia flexifolia is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has many softly-hairy branchlets. Its leaves are crowded, linear to lance-shaped with a fine point on the end and long. The flowers are arranged in two to four upper leaf axils on a short peduncle with small bracts and bracteoles about long. The sepals are about long and the petals white and about long, forming a bell-shaped tube with lobes about as long as the petal tube and hairy inside.
Taxonomy
This species was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown (botanist, [born 1773)|Robert Brown] who gave it the name Leucopogon flexifolius in his Prodromus [Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen], from specimens he collected at Shoalwater Bay. In 1824, Kurt [Polycarp Joachim Sprengel] transferred the species to Styphelia as S. flexifolia in Systema Vegetabilium. The specific epithet means "pliable-leaved".
Distribution
This styphelia grows in south-east Queensland.