Styphelia decussata
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| Styphelia decussata | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Styphelia |
| Species: | S. decussata |
| Binomial name | |
| Styphelia decussata | |
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Leucopogon tamminensis var. australis E.Pritz. | |
Styphelia decussata is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia.
It is a slender shrub with many branches, overlapping triangular to egg-shaped leaves, and white, tube-shaped flowers arranged singly in upper leaf axils.[2] It was first formally described in 1904 by Ernst Georg Pritzel who gave it the name Leucopogon tamminensis var. australis in Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie.[3]
In 2020, Michael Clyde Hislop, Darren M. Crayn and Caroline Puente-Lelievre transferred it to the genus Styphelia and raised it to species status. Since the name Styphelia australis was used for a different species, (Styphelia australis (R.Br.) F.Muell., now known as Leucopogon australis R.Br.)[4] the species was given the name Styphelia decussata.[1]
Styphelia decussata is widely distributed between Corrigin, Boxwood Hill and Munglinup in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains and Mallee of south-western Western Australia.[5][6]