Styphelia adscendens
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Styphelia adscendens, commonly known as Golden Heath, is a shrub species that is native to south-eastern Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. It is small shrub that grows to between 10 cm and 50 cm in height. The flowers, which appear between June and December in the species native range, may be cream, pale yellow, yellow green, pink or red.
The species was first formally described in 1810 by botanist Robert Brown
Robert Brown (botanist)
Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist and palaeobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope...

 in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae.
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