Styphelia multiflora

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Styphelia multiflora
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Priority Two — Poorly Known Taxa (DEC)
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Styphelia
Species:
S. multiflora
Binomial name
Styphelia multiflora
Leucopogon multiflorusDistA114.png
Occurrence data from AVH
Synonyms [1]
  • Leucopogon fraseri A.Cunn. ex DC. nom. illeg.
  • Leucopogon multiflorusR.Br.
  • Leucopogon multiflorus var. ulicinusBenth.
  • Styphelia fraseriF.Muell.

Styphelia multiflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a rigid shrub with crowded, sharply-pointed, linear to lance-shaped leaves, and white, tube-shaped flowers usually in groups in leaf axils.

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Description

Styphelia multiflora is a stout, rigid shrub with sotly-hairy branches. Its leaves are crowded, linear to lance-shaped, concave, about 12 mm (0.47 in) long and sharply-pointed. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils in groups of 3, 4 or more on a short peduncle with bracts and bracteoles less than half as long as the sepals. The sepals are about 2 mm (0.079 in) long and narrow, the petals white and about 4 mm (0.16 in) long, forming a tube with lobes about as long as the petal tube. [2] [3]

Taxonomy

This species was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen . [4] [5] In 1824, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel transferred the species to Styphelia as S. multiflora in his Systema Vegetabilium . [1] The specific epithet (multiflora) means "many-flowered". [6]

Distribution

This styphelia occurs in the Esperance Plains bioregion of south-western Western Australia. [3]

Conservation status

Styphelia multiflora is listed as "Priority One" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, [3] meaning that it is known from only one or a few locations which are potentially at risk. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Styphelia multiflora". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  2. ↑ Bentham, George (1868). Flora Australiensis. Vol. 4. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. pp. 221–222. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 "Styphelia multiflora". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  4. ↑ "Leucopogon multiflorus". APNI. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  5. ↑ Brown, Robert (1810). Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen. London. p. 542. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  6. ↑ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 256. ISBN   9780958034180.
  7. ↑ "Conservation codes for Western Australian Flora and Fauna" (PDF). Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
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