Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Styphelia laeta

Common name

Five-corners

Family

Ericaceae

Where found

Dry forest, heath, and shrubland. Coast, ranges, and tablelands, mainly north from the Wollongong district. Occasionally elsewhere.

subsp. laeta:  Coast, ranges and tablelands, north from the Wollongong district.

subsp. latifolia:  Coast and ranges, north from the Wollongong district.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m high. Fruit dry or slightly fleshy. Branchlets velvety. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1.3–3.5 cm long, 6–15 mm wide, concave in cross section, tips pointed; margins fringed or toothed, upper surface rough. Flowers pale yellow-green or red, tubular, the tube 14.5–30 mm long, with 5 tightly rolled lobes. Anthers extending well beyond the flower tube. Flowers single, rarely 2 or 3 together, erect to spreading. Flowering: February–August, mainly March–June.

subsp. laeta:  Leaves 6-8 mm wide, margins finely toothed. Flowers usually erect.

subsp. latifolia:  Leaves 8-15 mm wide, margins finely fringed. Flowers usually spreading.

Family was Epacridaceae.

PlantNET description of species with line drawing and key to subspecies:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Styphelia~laeta (accessed 7 February, 2021)