Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Styphelia viridis subsp. viridis

Flowering stem. Photographer John Tann, Waterfall, south of Sydney

Common name

Green Five-corners

Family

Ericaceae

Where found

Dry forest and heath. Coast and ranges north from Thirlmere.

Notes

Shrub usually to 1.8 m high. Fruit dry or slightly fleshy. Branchlets hairy with fine hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1.48–3 cm long, 4.7–7.2 mm wide, more or less flat, margins entire or fringed with minute hairs; surfaces hairless or the upper surface rough near the base. Flowers translucent green, tubular, the tube 14–25 mm long, with 5 tightly rolled lobes. Anthers extending well beyond the flower tube. Flowers single, rarely 2 or 3 together, almost erect to horizontal.

Family was Epacridaceae.

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