Styphelia tenuiflora

Styphelia tenuiflora, commonly known as common pinheath, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with broadly egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves and whitish-cream, tube-shaped flowers with hairy lobes.

Description
Styphelia tenuiflora is an erect, bushy, rigid, glabrous shrub that typically grows up to 0.2–1 m high. The leaves are egg-shaped to broadly lance-shaped, about 12 mm long with a short, almost sessile with a sharply pointed tip. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils, with bracteoles up to 2 mm long at the base. The sepals are about 5 mm long, and the petals are creamy white and joined at the base forming a narrow tube 12 mm long with hairy lobes.

Taxonomy
Styphelia tenuiflora was first formally described in 1839 by John Lindley in his A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony. The specific epithet (tenuiflora) means "thin-flowered".

Distribution
Common pinheath grows on gravelly lateritic soil in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Conservation status
Styphelia tenuiflora is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.