Styphelia conostephioides

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Styphelia conostephioides
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Styphelia
Species:
S. conostephioides
Binomial name
Styphelia conostephioides
Synonyms [1]

Leucopogon conostephioides DC.

Styphelia conostephioides is a flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, straggling shrub with lance-shaped leaves with a sharp point on the tip, and white flowers arranged in pairs in leaf axils.

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Description

Styphelia conostephioides is an erect, straggling shrub that typically grows up to about 30 cm (12 in) high and wide, its young branchlets sometimes softly-hairy. The leaves are directed upwards or spreading, lance-shaped, 6–13 mm (0.24–0.51 in) long, tapering to a sharp, rigid point on the tip and finely striated. The flowers are arranged in singly, in pairs or groups of three in leaf axils, on a short, spreading or down-turned peduncle. There are minute bracts and bracteoles about one-third as long as the sepals at the base. The sepals are dry and smooth, 3.2 mm (0.13 in) long and the petals white and 6.5 mm (0.26 in) long with lobes the same length as the tube. [2]

Taxonomy

This species was first described in 1839 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle who gave it the name Leucopogon conostephioides in his Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis from specimens collected by James Drummond near the Swan River Colony. [3] [4] In 1867 Ferdinand von Mueller transferred it to the genus Styphelia as S. conostephioides in his Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae . [5] [6]

Distribution

Styphelia conostephioides is found from near Lesueur National Park to Dunsborough and inland to Boyup Brook in the Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia. [7]

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References

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