Styphelia macrocalyx

Last updated

Styphelia macrocalyx
Styphelia macrocalyx.jpg
In the Kensington Bushland Reserve
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Styphelia
Species:
S. macrocalyx
Binomial name
Styphelia macrocalyx
Synonyms [1]

Astroloma macrocalyxSond.

Styphelia macrocalyx, commonly known as Swan berry, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with sharply pointed, narrowly lance-shaped leaves and white, tube-shaped flowers with tufts of hairs on the inside.

Contents

Description

Styphelia macrocalyx is an erect shrub that typically grows up to a height of 0.3–1.0 m (1 ft 0 in – 3 ft 3 in) and has glabrous branches. Its leaves are crowded, sharply-pointed, narrowly lance-shaped 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) long, concave and striated. The flowers are about the same length as the leaves, with pointed bracteoles 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) long. The sepals are 15–17 mm (0.59–0.67 in) long, the petals white and about the same length as the sepals. [3] [2]

Taxonomy and naming

This species was first formally described in 1845 by Otto Wilhelm Sonder who gave it the name Astroloma macrocalyx in Johann Georg Christian Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae . [4] [5] In 1867, Ferdinand von Mueller transferred the species to Styphelia as S. macrocalyx in his Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae . [1] [6] The specific epithet (macrocalyx) means "large sepals". [7]

Distribution

This styphelia occurs in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions in the south-west of Western Australia. [2]

Conservation status

Styphelia macrocalyx is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. [2]

Related Research Articles

<i>Eremophila brevifolia</i> Species of flowering plant

Eremophila brevifolia, also known as spotted eremophila, is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, open, spindly shrub with sticky, short, serrated leaves and white to pink flowers and is only known from a few scattered populations.

<i>Seringia integrifolia</i> Species of plant

Seringia integrifolia, commonly known as common firebush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a compact shrub, its new growth densely covered with star-shaped hairs, and has mostly narrowly leaves and many deep blue to purple flowers arranged in groups of 4 to 10.

<i>Hibbertia subvaginata</i> Species of plant

Hibbertia subvaginata is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a small shrub that has yellow flowers with stamens arranged around three or four carpels.

<i>Leucopogon plumuliflorus</i> Species of plant

Leucopogon plumuliflorus is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a weakly erect shrub with egg-shaped leaves and spikes of white or pinkish-white, tube-shaped flowers.

<i>Styphelia planifolia</i> Species of shrub

Styphelia planifolia is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a bushy shrub with narrowly oblong or lance-shaped leaves with a small, sharp point on the tip, and white, tube-shaped flowers.

<i>Styphelia conostephioides</i> Species of flowering plant

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.

<i>Styphelia crassifolia</i> Species of flowering plant

Styphelia crassifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to [the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, bushy shrub that typically grows to a height of 60 cm (24 in). Its leaves are oblong, 4–9 mm (0.16–0.35 in) long on a short petiole, with 3 prominent ribs on the lower surface. One or two flowers are borne in leaf axils on a short peduncle with tiny bracts and bracteoles about half the length of the sepals. The sepals are about 1.6 mm (0.063 in) long and the petals are about 3.2 mm (0.13 in) long and joined at the base, the lobes about as long as the tube.

<i>Leucopogon polymorphus</i> Species of shrub

Leucopogon polymorphus is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to near-coastal areas of south-western Western Australia. It is a shrub with egg-shaped to lance-shaped or almost linear leaves and short, dense spines of white, tube-shaped flowers.

<i>Leucopogon bossiaea</i> Species of plant

Leucopogon bossiaea is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to a restricted area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with elliptic to broadly egg-shaped leaves and white flowers in four to eleven upper leaf axils.

<i>Styphelia corynocarpa</i> Species of shrub

Styphelia corynocarpus is a flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, open shrub with narrowly egg-shaped to narrowly elliptic leaves, and white flowers arranged in groups of up to five in leaf axils.

<i>Styphelia breviflora</i> Species of plant

Styphelia breviflora is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, spindly, glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of up to about 1.5 m. It has oblong to lance-shaped or linear leaves 4–9 mm (0.16–0.35 in) long on a short petiole and with a small, rigid point on the tip. The flowers are borne singly or in pairs in leaf axils on a short peduncle with small bracts and bracteoles about half as long as the sepals. The sepals are about 2 mm (0.079 in) long and the petals white and about 4 mm (0.16 in) long, the petal lobes longer than the petal tube.

<i>Styphelia flavescens</i> Species of plant

Styphelia flavescens is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with oblong leaves and white, tube-shaped flowers that are densely bearded on the inside.

<i>Styphelia erubescens</i> Species of plant

Styphelia erubescens is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with variably-shaped leaves with a small, sharp point on the tip, and white, pink or red, tube-shaped flowers.

<i>Leucopogon strongylophyllus</i> Species of plant

Leucopogon strongylophyllus is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with crowded egg-shaped or round leaves and white, tube-shaped flower arranged singly or in pairs in leaf axils.

<i>Styphelia discolor</i> Species of plant

Styphelia discolor is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub, usually with prostrate stems and spreading, tapering linear leaves and almost sessile red flowers.

<i>Styphelia epacridis</i> Species of flowering plant

Styphelia epacridis is a flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a straggling shrub with lance-shaped or linear leaves with a sharp point on the tip, and red, tube-shaped flowers arranged singly in leaf axils.

<i>Styphelia exarrhena</i> Species of flowering plant

Styphelia exarrhena, commonly known as desert styphelia, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to southern continental Australia. It is an erect shrub with erect or spreading egg-shaped leaves, and cream-coloured, tube-shaped flowers arranged singly or in pairs in upper leaf axils.

Styphelia exserta is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with broadly egg-shaped leaves, and white, tube-shaped flowers.

<i>Styphelia hainesii</i> Species of plant

Styphelia hainesii is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south coast of Western Australia. It is a bushy shrub with egg-shaped leaves, the narrower end towards the base, and red, tube-shaped flowers arranged singly in leaf axils.

<i>Styphelia lissanthoides</i> Species of plant

Styphelia lissanthoides is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is an erect, bushy shrub with egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and white, tube-shaped flowers arranged singly or in pairs in leaf axils.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Styphelia macrocalyx". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Styphelia macrocalyx". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  3. Bentham, George (1868). Flora Australiensis. Vol. 4. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. p. 153. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  4. "Astroloma macrocalyx'". APNI. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  5. Sonder, Otto W. (1845). Lehmann, Johann G.C. (ed.). Plantae Preissianae. Vol. 1. Hamburg. pp. 301–302. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  6. von Mueller, Ferdinand (1867). Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae. Melbourne: Victorian Government Printer. p. 33. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  7. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 246. ISBN   9780958034180.