Styphelia longifolia

Styphelia longifolia, commonly known as long-leaf styphelia, 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.

Description

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.

Taxonomy

Styphelia longifolia was first described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae [et Insulae Van Diemen]. The specific epithet means "long-leaved".

Distribution and habitat

This styphelia grows in open forest or woodland on sandy soil between Waterfall, [New South Wales|Waterfall] and Broken Bay.