Styphelia woodsii
(F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex Tate Nodding Beard-heathSmall, slender shrub 20–40 cm high; branchlets minutely pubescent. Leaves erect to suberect, ovate to obovate, 3–5 mm long, 1.3–1.7 mm wide, slightly convex to flat, concolorous, glabrous except for a few minute hairs at base of upper surface; margins entire to minutely denticulate; apex obtuse, usually minutely mucronate or with a callus. Flowers white, 1 or 2 in axils, pendent; bracteoles ovate, 1–1.5 mm long, obtuse to subacute, glabrous, margins ciliolate; sepals ovate, 1.5–2.2 mm long, acute to acuminate, glabrous; corolla 4.5–8 mm long, lobes much longer than tube, acute to acuminate, densely bearded within; anthers lacking sterile tips; ovary 4- or 5-locular, glabrous, style 4–5 mm long. Fruit ovoid to obovoid, 4–6 mm long. Flowers Feb.–Jun.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GGr. Also WA, SA. Confined in Victoria to mallee-heath developed on deep sands, usually on or near dune crests, in the Little Desert and southern Big Desert. Two collections (pre-1900 or early 20th Century) purporting to be from the Grampians ('southern Grampians' and 'Mt William') are of dubious origin and likely to be the result of mixed labels.
Powell, J.M.; Walsh, N.G.; Brown, E.A. (1996). Leucopogon. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 494–509. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
