Styphelia crassifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to [the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, bushy shrub that typically grows to a height of 60 cm (24 in). Its leaves are oblong, 4–9 mm (0.16–0.35 in) long on a short petiole, with 3 prominent ribs on the lower surface. One or two flowers are borne in leaf axils on a short peduncle with tiny bracts and bracteoles about half the length of the sepals. The sepals are about 1.6 mm (0.063 in) long and the petals are about 3.2 mm (0.13 in) long and joined at the base, the lobes about as long as the tube.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Styphelia |
| Species: | S. crassifolia
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Leucopogon crassifolius Sond. | |
This species was first described in 1845 as Leucopogon crassifolius by Otto Wilhelm Sonder in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae from specimens collected at Cape Riche.[3][4] In 1867 Ferdinand von Mueller transferred it to the genus, Styphelia as S. crassifolia in his Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae.[5][6]
Styphelia crassifolia occurs in scattered locations mainly between the Fitzgerald River National Park and Cape Riche, with outliers north of Cheyne Beach and near Chillinup, in the Esperance Plains bioregion in the south-west of Western Australia.[7][8]
References
edit- ^ "Styphelia crassifolia". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
- ^ Bentham, George (1868). Flora Australiensis. Vol. 4. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. p. 222. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
- ^ "Leucopogon crassifolius". APNI. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
- ^ Sonder, Otto Wilhelm (1845). Plantae Preissianae. Hamburg: Sumptibus Meissneri. pp. 316–317. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
- ^ "Styphelia crassifolia". APNI. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
- ^ von Mueller, Ferdinand (1867). Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae. Vol. 6. Melbourne: Victorian Government Printer. p. 33. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
- ^ Hislop, Michael; Nguyen, Hung Ky (2022). "A taxonomic review of the Styphelia tamminensis subgroup (Ericaceae: Epacridoideae: Styphelieae)". Nuytsia. 33: 288. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
- ^ "Styphelia crassifolia". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
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