Leucopogon leptospermoides
Near Red Rock, New South Wales
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Leucopogon
Species:
L. leptospermoides
Binomial name
Leucopogon leptospermoides
Occurrence data from AVH
Synonyms[1]
  • Leucopogon pauciflorus R.Br.
  • Styphelia leptospermoides (R.Br.) Spreng.
  • Styphelia pauciflora (R.Br.) Spreng.

Leucopogon leptospermoides is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect, bushy shrub with elliptic to lance-shaped or oblong leaves, and white, tube-shaped flowers usually arranged singly in upper leaf axils.

Description

Leucopogon leptospermoides is an erect, bushy shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.6–1 m (2 ft 0 in – 3 ft 3 in), and has softly-hairy branchlets. The leaves are more or less erect, elliptic to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, or oblong, 8.5–12 mm (0.33–0.47 in) long and 1.5–2.2 mm (0.059–0.087 in) wide on a petiole 0.3–0.4 mm (0.012–0.016 in) long. The leaves are glabrous and the lower surface is finely striated. The flowers are arranged singly in upper leaf axils with white bracteoles 1.2–1.9 mm (0.047–0.075 in) long at the base. The sepals are 2.3–3.1 mm (0.091–0.122 in) long, the petals joined at the base to form a tube 1.6–2.4 mm (0.063–0.094 in) long with lobes 1.2–2.8 mm (0.047–0.110 in) long. Flowering mainly occurs from September to November and the fruit is a glabrous, oval drupe 3.3–4.0 mm (0.13–0.16 in) long.[2]

Taxonomy

Leucopogon leptospermoides was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.[3][4] The specific epithet (leptospermoides) means "leptospermum-like".[5]

Distribution and habitat

This leucopogon grows in coastal heath and open woodland in Queensland to as far south as Hawks Nest on the north coast of New South Wales.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Leucopogon leptospermoides". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  2. 1 2 Powell, Jocelyn M. "Leucopogon leptospermoides". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  3. ↑ "Leucopogon leptospermoides". APNI. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  4. ↑ Brown, Robert (1810). Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum. London. p. 546. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  5. ↑ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 239. ISBN 9780958034180.
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