Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Ericales Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Ericaceae
Genus
Styphelia Sm.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Styphelia nesophila (DC.) Sleumer, Blumea 12: 153 (1963)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Leucopogon nesophilus DC., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 7, 752 (1839)
  • = Leucopogon fraseri A.Cunn., Ann. Nat. Hist. 2: 47 (1839)
  • ≡ Cyathodes fraseri (A.Cunn.) Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 517 (1961)
  • = Leucopogon bellignianus Raoul, Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. sér. 3, 2: 118 (1844)
  • = Styphelia fraseri F.Muell., Fragm. (Mueller) 6, 56 (1867)
  • = Leucopogon fraseri var. muscosus G.Simpson, Trans. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 75: 190 (1945)
 Description

Prostrate to low-growing shrub up to c. 15 cm. tall or more, forming extensive dense patches; branches decumbent to ascending; branchlets close-set, minutely puberulous when young, densely clad in erect imbricate lvs. Lamina sessile or subsessile, coriac., glab., us. brownish green above, paler below, finely nerved, ± 4–9 × 1–2 mm., obovate-oblong; margins scarious to cartilaginous, finely ciliolate; abruptly narrowed to pungent tip ± 2 mm. long. Infl. of axillary solitary sessile fls; bracts minute, apiculate. Fls small; calyx-lobes acute. Corolla-tube cylindric. > twice length calyx; lobes short, acute, densely hairy on upper surfaces. Fr. orange to yellow, broad-oblong in outline, 8–9 mm. long.

[From:  Allan  (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Cyathodes fraseri (A.Cunn.) Allan]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
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