Desert Styphelia

Appearance

Erect shrub to c. 60 cm high; branchlets puberulent. Leaves erect or spreading, ovate, 3.2–9 mm long, 1.4–4.5 mm wide, mucronate, glabrous or rarely puberulent above; margins plane to slightly recurved. Flowers erect, solitary or 2 close together in a much reduced spike, often sparse on plant; bracts, bracteoles and sepals ovate, acuminate-aristate; bracts, 0.7–1.2 mm long; bracteoles 1.3–2 mm long; sepals 2.4–3.2 mm long; corolla cream; tube cylindric or widening towards apex, 3–4.3 mm long, inside with scattered hairs in the upper half, glabrous below; lobes aristate, revolute to recoiled, bearded, 3.2–5 mm long, style 5–7 mm long. Fruit narrowly ellipsoid, c. 2.5 mm long. is a

Distribution

Australia