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Styphelia mutica
Species of plant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Styphelia mutica, commonly known as blunt beard-heath,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect, straggling shrub with egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and small numbers of white, tube-shaped flowers that are densely bearded inside.
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Description
Styphelia mutica is an erect, straggling shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in), and has softly-hairy branchlets. Its leaves are egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, 9.6–23 mm (0.38–0.91 in) long and 2.5–5.8 mm (0.098–0.228 in) wide on a petiole 1.5–2.0 mm (0.059–0.079 in) long. The leaves are flat with 3 to 5 parallel veins. The flowers are arranged in spikes of 4 to 10 up to 9 mm (0.35 in) long in leaf axils on a peduncle about 2 mm (0.079 in) long with bracteoles 0.9–1.2 mm (0.035–0.047 in) long at the base. The sepals are 0.9–2.4 mm (0.035–0.094 in) long, the petals joined at the base to form a tube 2.0–2.5 mm (0.079–0.098 in) long with lobes 1.4–2.0 mm (0.055–0.079 in) long and densely bearded inside. Flowering mainly occurs from September to October and the fruit is a bristly, black, elliptic drupe 3.0–4.5 mm (0.12–0.18 in) long.[2][3]
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Taxonomy
This species was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown, who gave it the name Leucopogon muticus in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.[4][5] In 1867, Ferdinand von Mueller transferred the species to Styphelia as S. mutica.[1] The specific epithet (mutica) means "blunt".[6]
Distribution and habitat
Blunt beard-heath grows in heath and forest on slopes and ridges from sea level to an altitude of 1,000 m (3,300 ft) in south-east Queensland and in eastern New South Wales as far south as Cooma.[2][3]
References
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