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Styphelia tenuiflora

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Species of shrub

Styphelia tenuiflora
In Wandoo National Park
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Styphelia
Species: S. tenuiflora
Binomial name
Styphelia tenuiflora
Lindl.
Synonyms
  • Soleniscia elegans DC.
  • Styphelia elegans (DC.) Sond.
  • Styphelia elegans var. brevior Ewart & Jean White
  • Styphelia elegans var. lanceolata Sond.

Styphelia tenuiflora, commonly known as common pinheath, 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 to lance-shaped leaves and whitish-cream, tube-shaped flowers with hairy lobes.

Description

Styphelia tenuiflora is an erect, bushy, rigid, glabrous shrub that typically grows up to 0.2–1 m (7.9 in – 3 ft 3.4 in) high. The leaves are egg-shaped to broadly lance-shaped, about 12 mm (0.47 in) long with a short, almost sessile with a sharply pointed tip. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils, with bracteoles up to 2 mm (0.079 in) long at the base. The sepals are about 5 mm (0.20 in) long, and the petals are creamy white and joined at the base forming a narrow tube 12 mm (0.47 in) long with hairy lobes.

Taxonomy

Styphelia tenuiflora was first formally described in 1839 by John Lindley in his A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony. The specific epithet (tenuiflora) means "thin-flowered".

Distribution

Common pinheath grows on gravelly lateritic soil in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Conservation status

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

References

  1. ^ "Styphelia tenuiflora". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
  2. ^ "Styphelia tenuiflora". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  3. Bentham, George (1868). Flora Australiensis. Vol. 4. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. pp. 148–149. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
  4. "Styphelia tenuiflora". APNI. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
  5. Lindley, John (1839). A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony. London: James Ridgway. p. xxv. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
  6. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 321. ISBN 9780958034180.
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