Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Styphelia tubiflora

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Cuumbean Nature Reserve near Queanbeyan

Flowering stems. Photographer Jackie Miles, Waterfall, south of Sydney

Common name

Red five-corner

Family

Ericaceae

Where found

Dry forest and heath. Mainly Sydney and the Blue Mountains and south to Southern Highlands and west of Milton.  Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Shrub to 0.9 m high. Fruit dry or slightly fleshy. Leaf tips sharp. Branchlets hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.7–2.4 cm long, 1.5–3.3 mm wide, flat to convex in cross section, margins entire, upper surface often rough. Flowers usually red, sometimes cream, whitish, or pale yellow-green, tubular, the tube 14.6–25 mm long, with 5 tightly rolled lobes. Anthers extending well beyond the flower tube. Flowers single, rarely 2 or 3 together, spreading to drooping. Flowering: April–August.

Family was Epacridaceae.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Styphelia~tubiflora (accessed 7 February, 2021)