Styphelia pallida, commonly known as kick bush,[2] is usually a small, compact shrub in the family Ericaceae.

Creamy white to pale yellow (rarely pink or red) tubular flowers are present in the axils of leaves for most of the year.

[2][3][4] This species was first described in 1810 by Robert Brown who gave it the name in Astroloma pallidum in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae.

[7] Kick bush grows on yellow/grey sand, red/brown laterite gravel, brown clay to sandy clay, ironstone and limestone in a variety of habitats including flats, hillslopes, winter-wet sites and the edges of lakes in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren biogeographical regions of Western Australia.

[2] This species is not known in cultivation, partly because good cutting wood is difficult to obtain.