Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Styphelia psiloclada
Common name
A styphelia
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Forest, heath, rocky ridges, and stream banks. Ranges and eastern edge of the tablelands mainly south from east of Cooma. Rarely elsewhere.
Notes
Shrub to 1 m high. Fruit dry or slightly fleshy. Branchlets hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.83–1.74 cm long, 3.9–7.5 mm wide, tips more or less blunt; margins entire; upper surface flat to slightly convex, lower surface rough. Flowers light pink to dark crimson-pink, lighter inside, tubular, the tube 13.4–18.1 mm long, with 5 tightly rolled lobes. Anthers extending well beyond the flower tube. Sepals tinged red. Flowers single, rarely 2 or 3 together, spreading to drooping. Flowers Summer to Autumn.
Family was Epacridaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Styphelia~psiloclada (accessed 7 February, 2021)
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