About Styphelia sieberi (DC.) Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel.
Styphelia sieberi, commonly known as prickly beard-heath, is an erect, densely branched shrub that usually grows to a height of around 1 metre (3 feet 3 inches). Its branchlets are covered in soft hairs. The leaves are oblong to roughly egg-shaped, with the narrower end at the base. Each leaf measures 5.6 to 11.8 millimetres (0.22 to 0.46 inches) long, 1.2 to 2.5 millimetres (0.047 to 0.098 inches) wide, and grows on a petiole 0.3 to 0.6 millimetres (0.012 to 0.024 inches) long. Leaf edges are finely toothed, the leaf tip ends in a sharp point up to 1 millimetre (0.039 inches) long, and both leaf surfaces are roughly hairless. Flowers grow singly in upper leaf axils, on a peduncle around 1 millimetre (0.039 inches) long, with 1.3 to 1.7 millimetre (0.051 to 0.067 inch) long bracteoles at the base. Sepals are 2.8 to 4 millimetres (0.11 to 0.16 inches) long. Petals are white, joined at the base to form a tube 5.4 to 7.9 millimetres (0.21 to 0.31 inches) long, with lobes 1.9 to 2.9 millimetres (0.075 to 0.114 inches) long. Flowering occurs between May and October. The fruit is a smooth, hairless oval to elliptic drupe, 3.2 to 4 millimetres (0.13 to 0.16 inches) long. This species grows in forest and open shrubland on the coast and adjacent tablelands of south-eastern Queensland, New South Wales, and east of the Mitchell River in Victoria.
