Styphelia margarodes is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to near-coastal areas of eastern Australia. It is an erect, spreading shrub with egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and small numbers of white, tube-shaped flowers usually arranged singly or in pairs in upper leaf axils.
| Styphelia margarodes | |
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| In the North Coast Regional Botanic Garden | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Styphelia |
| Species: | S. margarodes
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| Binomial name | |
| Styphelia margarodes | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Leucopogon margarodes R.Br. | |
Description edit
Styphelia margarodes is an erect, spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.7–3 m (2 ft 4 in – 9 ft 10 in), and has bristly branchlets. The leaves are egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, or oblong, 6.1–11.2 mm (0.24–0.44 in) long and 1.2–2.5 mm (0.047–0.098 in) wide on a petiole about 0.4 mm (0.016 in) long. The leaves are covered with bristly hairs, edges of the leaves are rolled under and have fine teeth. The flowers are few in number and arranged singly or in pairs in leaf axils with bracteoles 1.0–1.3 mm (0.039–0.051 in) long at the base. The sepals are 1.5–1.9 mm (0.059–0.075 in) long, the petals joined at the base to form a tube 1.15–1.3 mm (0.045–0.051 in) long with lobes 1.3–2.5 mm (0.051–0.098 in) long. Flowering mainly occurs from September to February and the fruit is a more of less glabrous, oval drupe 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) long.[2][3]
Taxonomy edit
This species was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.[4][5] In 1824, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel transferred the species to the genus Styphelia as S. margarodes in his Systema Vegetabilium.[1]
Distribution and habitat edit
This styphelia grows in coastal heath, forest and woodland in near-coastal areas from south-eastern Queensland to as far south as Wondabyne in New South Wales.[2]
References edit
- ^ a b c "Styphelia margarodes". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
- ^ a b Powell, Jocelyn M. "Leucopogon margarodes". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
- ^ Benson, Doug; McDougall, Lyn (1995). "Ecology of Sydney Plants 3: families Cabombaceae to Eupomatiaceae". Cunninghamia. 4 (2): 373. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
- ^ "Leucopogon margarodes". APNI. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
- ^ Brown, Robert (1810). Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum. London. p. 542. Retrieved 23 January 2023.