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Styphelia rectiloba

Styphelia rectiloba is a compact, spreading Australian shrub from the heath family, known only from a few populations near Kambalda in Western Australia. Its key to growing is well-drained, rocky, sandy soil and full sun, as it naturally grows on granite breakaways.

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established and let the soil dry between waterings, since it is adapted to dry, rocky ground.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil; avoid heavy clay and waterlogging.
Temperature
Tolerates a wide range of temperatures typical of southern Western Australia; frost tolerance is not documented in the sources.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Styphelia rectiloba is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to a small area in the south of Western Australia. It is a spreading, compact shrub with hairy young branchlets, sharply-pointed egg-shaped leaves, and cream-coloured, tube-shaped flowers.

Where it grows

This styphelia is only known from a few populations near Kambalda where it grows in open woodland or heath in rocky soils on or near granite breakaways in the Coolgardie bioregion of southern Western Australia.

Other Styphelia plants

Styphelia foliosa · Styphelia humifusa · Styphelia pallida · Astroloma · Coleanthera · Styphelia allittii · Styphelia brevicuspis · Styphelia breviflora · Styphelia conchifolia · Styphelia concinna · Styphelia conferta · Styphelia conostephioides

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Styphelia rectiloba by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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