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Styphelia imbricata

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Species of shrub

Styphelia imbricata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Styphelia
Species: S. imbricata
Binomial name
Styphelia imbricata
(R.Br.) Spreng.
Occurrence data from AVH
Synonyms

Leucopogon imbricatus (R.Br.)

Styphelia imbricata is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to south-east Queensland. It is an erect shrub with glabrous branches, crowded, often overlapping, egg-shaped leaves, and white, bell-shaped flowers that are bearded inside.

Description

Styphelia imbricata is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of about 45 cm (18 in) and has widely-spreading, glabrous branches. Its leaves are sessile, egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base and less than 13 mm (0.51 in) long. The leaves are crowded, often overlapping, and have a fine sharp point on the rounded tip. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils on a short peduncle with small bracts and broad bracteoles less than half as long as the sepals. The sepals are about 3 mm (0.12 in) long and the petals white, forming a bell-shaped tube about as long as the sepals, with lobes about as long as the petal tube.

Taxonomy

This species was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown who gave it the name Leucopogon imbricatus in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen. In 1824, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel transferred the species to Sprengelia and gave it the name S. imbricata. The specific epithet (imbricata) means "imbricate".

Distribution

This styphelia grows in south-east Queensland.

References

  1. ^ "Styphelia imbricata". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  2. Bentham, George (1868). Flora Australiensis. Vol. 4. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. p. 215. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  3. "Leucopogon imbricatus". APNI. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  4. Brown, Robert (1810). Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen. London. p. 545. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  5. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 222. ISBN 9780958034180.
  6. "Leucopogon imbricatus". Atlas of Living Australia. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
Taxon identifiers
Styphelia imbricata
Leucopogon imbricatus
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