Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Styphelia longifolia
Common name
Long-leaf Styphelia
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Dry forest. Sydney area and north.
Notes
Shrub, usually to 2 m high. Fruit dry or slightly fleshy. Branchlets silky. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2.4–5 cm long, 2.2–5.5 mm wide, tips very concave; gradually tapering to a fine point, margins entire; upper surface concave to flat. Flowers pale green to yellow, tubular, the tube 18–25 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: March–September, but mainly May-July.
Family was Epacridaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Styphelia~longifolia (accessed 7 February, 2021)
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