Styphelia ruscifolia is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to north Queensland.

It is a shrub with oblong to broadly egg-shaped leaves, the narrower end towards the base, and white, tube-shaped flowers usually arranged singly or in pairs in leaf axils.

The flowers are borne singly or in pairs in leaf axils, with small bracts and broad bracteoles less than half as long as the sepals.

[2][3] This species was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown who gave it the name Leucopogon ruscifolius in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae.

[4][5] In 1824, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel transferred the species to Styphelia as S. ruscifolia in Systema Vegetabilium.