Styphelia adscendens

Prostrate or decumbent shrub to c. 60 cm high; branchlets finely pubescent. Leaves ascending,often slightly twisted, lanceolate or oblanceolate, 8–32 mm long, 1.8–6 mm wide, mucronate, glabrous (rarely puberulent); margins plane to slightly recurved. Flowers erect, solitary or 2 close together in axils; bracts and bracteoles ovate, obtuse and apiculate; bracts 1–3.5 mm long; bracteoles 3–6 mm long; sepals lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 7–13.5 mm long, apiculate; corolla cream, pale yellow-green or occasionally reddish; tube cylindric or widening slightly towards apex, 12.5–20 mm long, inside with scattered hairs and a ring of denser hairs toward base; lobes acute-aristate, usually recoiled, bearded, 13–17.5 mm long, style 26–38 mm long. Fruit ovoid, 4.3–8.5 mm long. Flowers Jun.–Nov.