Australian Capital Territory
Canberra & Southern Tablelands
New South Wales
Canberra & Southern Tablelands
Crayn, D.M., Hislop, M. & Puente-Lelièvre, C. (5 February 2020)
A phylogenetic recircumscription of Styphelia (Ericaceae, Epacridoideae, Styphelieae).
Australian Systematic Botany 33 (2),
placed several species from other Ericaceae within Styphelia.
The paper says species of Styphelia can be distinguished by a combination of five features, as follows:
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Styphelia can be readily distinguished in the field and herbarium from other genera in the tribes Oligarrheneae and Styphelieae by the following combination of five features observable with the naked eye or with hand-lens magnification:
(1) inflorescences axillary only (terminal inflorescences never present), with new vegetative growth arising from the apex of flowering shoots;
(2) winter bud scales absent;
(3) corolla lobes densely and uniformly hairy;
(4) corolla tube lacking fleshy scales inside (but hair tufts may be present); and
(5) fruit a drupe, the endocarp not separating into pyrenes.
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Styphelia (genus) is listed in the following regions:
Canberra & Southern Tablelands
No sightings currently exist.
