Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Styphelia triflora
Common name
Pink five-corners, Fivecorners
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, heath, and stream banks. Western Slopes north of the Hume Highway, ACT, tablelands, and ranges. Coastal north of Milton.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high. Leaf tips sharp. Fruit dry or slightly fleshy. Branchlets hairless or rarely rough. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1.4–3.5 cm long, 3–8.5 mm wide, tips pointed; margins usually entire; upper surface flat to concave. Flowers pink to red, cream, or pale yellow-green, sometimes translucent, tubular, the tube 13.5–29.4 mm long or more, with 5 tightly rolled lobes each 5–18 mm long. Anthers extending well beyond the flower tube. Flowers single or in small clusters, spreading to drooping. Flowering: throughout the year.
Family was Epacridaceae.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Styphelia~triflora (accessed 7 February, 2021)
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