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.