Styphelia laeta
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| Styphelia laeta | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Styphelia |
| Species: | S. laeta |
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| Styphelia laeta | |
Styphelia laeta, commonly known as five corners,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a slender, erect shrub with broadly elliptic or egg-shaped leaves and pale yellowish-green or red flowers arranged singly in leaf axils.
Styphelia laeta is a slender, erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–2 m (3 ft 3 in – 6 ft 7 in), its branchlets covered with velvety hairs. The leaves are broadly elliptic or egg-shaped, 13–35 mm (0.51–1.38 in) long, 6.0–13.5 mm (0.24–0.53 in) wide on a petiole 0.4–1.6 mm (0.016–0.063 in) long. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils with glabrous bracteoles 2.8–5.4 mm (0.11–0.21 in) long. The flowers are pale yellowish-green or red, the sepals 7–13.5 mm (0.28–0.53 in) long and the petals form a tube 14.5–26 mm (0.57–1.02 in) long with densely hairy lobes 13–21 mm (0.51–0.83 in) long. The stamen filaments are 8.6–15 mm (0.34–0.59 in) long. Flowering occurs from February to August and the fruit is 6.6–8.3 mm (0.26–0.33 in) long.[2][3][4]