Styphelia brevicuspis

Styphelia brevicuspis is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, bushy shrub with oblong leaves with a small point on the tip, mostly about 1 mm (0.039 in) long. The flowers are arranged in groups of two or three in leaf axils with small bracts and bracteoles about half as long as the sepals. The sepals are about 4.2 mm (0.17 in) long and softly-hairy, the petal tube about the same length as the sepals but the petal lobes shorter than the petal tube.^[2]

Styphelia brevicuspis
Conservation status
Priority Two — Poorly Known Taxa (DEC)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Ericales
Family:	Ericaceae
Genus:	Styphelia
Species:	S. brevicuspis
Binomial name
Styphelia brevicuspis (Benth.) F.Muell.[1]
Occurrence data from AVH
Synonyms[1]
Leucopogon brevicuspis Benth.

It was first formally described in 1868 by George Bentham in Flora Australiensis.^[2][3] In 1882, Ferdinand von Mueller transfereed the species to Styphelia as S. brevicuspis in the Systematic Census of Australian Plants.^[1] The specific epithet (brevicuspis) means "short point".^[4]

This species occurs in the Jarrah Forest bioregion of the south-west of Western Australia and is listed as "Priority Two" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions,^[5] meaning that it is poorly known and from only one or a few locations.^[6]

References

1. "Styphelia brevicuspis". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
2. Bentham, George; von Mueller, Ferdinand (1868). Flora Australiensis. Vol. 4. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. p. 210. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
3. "Leucopogon brevicuspis". APNI. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
4. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 150. ISBN 9780958034180.
5. "Styphelia brevicuspis". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
6. "Conservation codes for Western Australian Flora and Fauna" (PDF). Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife. Retrieved 3 July 2022.