Citation: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 547 (1810).

Synonymy: Styphelia serrulata Labill., Nov. Holl. Pl. Sp. 1:45, t. 62 (1805).

Common name: Honeypots.

Description:
Procumbent or diffuse shrub forming mats 30-90 cm across; young branches red-brown, older stems dark-brown to grey-brown; leaves flat, often with the apex of the upper half somewhat recurved, 4-13 mm long, 0.5-2 mm wide, acute, tip slender, often broken, 0.8-1.4 mm long, base truncate or obtuse, margins serrulate towards the apex or overall, lower surface glaucous; petiole 0.3-0.7 mm long.

Flowers pale-green, in 5-7 mm long spikes; bracts triangular to ovate, 0.5-0.7 x 0.7 mm, with ciliolate margins; bracteoles 1-1.2 x 1.2-1.5 mm, with a tuft of hairs near the apex; sepals 1.4-2.1 x 1.3-1.5 mm, reddish tipped, sparsely pubescent near the apex; corolla tube 4-4.7 mm long, inflated about the middle, lobes 1.5-2 mm long; anthers orange, c. 0.5 mm long; ovary 0.7-1 mm high and wine, puberulent over the upper half, 5-7-celled; style 1.2-1.3 mm long; nectary 0.4-0.5 mm high.

Fruit a flattened sphere, 2.5-3.5 x 3-4.5 mm, greenish, scarcely succulent, shortly hispid.

Published illustration: Burbidge & Gray (1970) Flora of A. C.T., fig. 294.

Distribution:  Occurs in eucalypt woodland on sandy loam. S.Aust.: MU, SL, SE.   N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Aug. — Sept.; fruit: Nov. — Feb.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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