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Styphelia
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Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderEricales
  5. FamilyEricaceae
Native toBorneo, Cambodia, Chatham Is., Fiji, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales
Observations recorded115,920

General: Members of Styphelia can be recognised by the small, stiff

via GBIF · Kew POWO

Museum specimens

Specimen records
547
With media
439
Family
Ericaceae
Collections
A, GH, RSA
Recorded in
Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Australia, United States

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Encyclopedic overview

5 sections
Contents
  • Description
  • Taxonomy and naming
  • Species list
  • Distribution
  • References

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Styphelia is a genus of shrubs in the family Ericaceae, native from Indo-China through the Pacific to Australia. Most have minute or small leaves with a sharp tip, single, tube-shaped flowers arranged in leaf axils and with the ends of the petals rolled back with hairs in the inside of the tube.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Styphelia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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