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Styphelia tortifolia

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Species of shrub

Styphelia tortifolia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Styphelia
Species: S. tortifolia
Binomial name
Styphelia tortifolia
Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel.
Synonyms

Astroloma glaucescens Sond.

Styphelia tortifolia is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with linear or narrowly oblong leaves, and red, tube-shaped flowers with bearded lobes.

Description

Styphelia tortifolia is a much-branched shrub that typically grows to a height of 30–60 cm (12–24 in), the branchlets with soft hairs. The leaves are linear to narrowly oblong and sharply pointed, usually 6.5–8.5 mm (0.26–0.33 in) long with the edges rolled under and often glaucous on the lower surface. The flowers are almost sessile with bracteoles less than 2 mm (0.079 in) long at the base. The sepals are 4.3–5.2 mm (0.17–0.20 in) long and often hairy. The petals are joined at the base, forming a tube 8.6–10.8 mm (0.34–0.43 in) long with erect lobes with pointed tips and bearded on the inside near the end. The fruit is scarcely as long as the sepals.

Taxonomy

This species was first formally described in 1845 by Otto Sonder who gave it the name Astroloma glaucescens in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae. However, in 2020 phylogenetic studies by Darren Crayn, Michael Hislop and Caroline Puente-Lelièvre determined that Astroloma needed to be sunk into Styphelia. Since the name Styphelia glaucescens had already been used for a different plant species, (now known as Styphelia triflora), the species was given the name S. tortifolia. The specific epithet (tortifolia) means "twisted leaves".

Distribution

Styphelia tortifolia occurs in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

References

  1. ^ "Styphelia tortifolia". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 26 April 2024.
  2. Bentham, George (1868). Flora Australiensis. Vol. 4. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. p. 157. Retrieved 26 April 2024.
  3. "Astroloma glaucescens". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 26 April 2024.
  4. Sonder, O.W. (1845). Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.). "Epacrideae". Plantae Preissianae. 1 (2): 298.
  5. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 325. ISBN 9780958034180.
  6. "Styphelia tortifolia". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
Taxon identifiers
Styphelia tortifolia
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