Styphelia Sm.

Greek styphelos—hard, rough; referring to the stiff, prickly pointed leaves.

Shrubs. Branchlets hairy. Leaves mostly flat and with a whiskery tip, pale below. Flowers axillary 1(2,3) with a short stalk. Floral tube narrowly cylindrical, hairy in throat and below middle of tube inside, lobes bent down. Stamens protruding. Ovary 5-chambered with 1 ovule in each. Fruit a drupe.

Cuttings or seed.

Flower hairy at the throat and below the middle inside with lobes that curl back; stamens protruding from flower.

14 species endemic to Australia, all states.

Source: Spencer, R. (1997). Epacridaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.

kingdom Plantae
phylum   Tracheophyta
class    Magnoliopsida
superorder     Asteranae
order      Ericales
family       Ericaceae
Higher taxa
Subordinate taxa
species         Styphelia adscendens R.Br.