''Styphelia conostephioides'' is a plant in the family

Ericaceae The Ericaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family, found most commonly in acidic and infertile growing conditions. The family is large, with c.4250 known species spread across 124 genera, making it th ...

native to

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to ...

. It was first described in 1839 as ''Leucopogon conostephioides'' by

Augustin Pyramus de Candolle Augustin Pyramus (or Pyrame) de Candolle (, , ; 4 February 17789 September 1841) was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched de Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at a herbarium. Within a couple of years de Candolle ...

. In 1867

Ferdinand von Mueller Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (german: Müller; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Vic ...

transferred it to the genus, ''

Styphelia ''Styphelia'' is a genus of shrubs in the family Ericaceae, native from Indo-China through the Pacific to Australia. Most have minute or small leaves with a sharp tip, single, tube-shaped flowers arranged in leaf axils and with the ends of th ...

'', but the accepted name continued to be ''Leucopogon conostephioides''. However in 2020, with a publication concerning the phylogeny of ''

'' by Crayn and others, the name ''Styphelia conostephioides'' was accepted by the Herbarium of Western Australia. (The

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH) is an association of the leaders of herbaria in Australia and New Zealand. It is governed by a constitution. It endorses the taxonomy and nomenclature of the Australian Plant Census, which is the so ...

still (May 2020) lists ''Leucopogon conostephioides'' as the accepted name.)

References

conostephioides Ericales of Australia Flora of Western Australia Plants described in 1839 Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller {{Australia-asterid-stub