Species of plant
Leucopogon fimbriatus is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a bushy, erect or sprawling shrub with overlapping egg-shaped or oblong leaves and spikes of tube-shaped white flowers on the ends of branches.
Description
Leucopogon fimbriatus is a bushy, erect or sprawling, densely-branched shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.15–1 m (5.9 in – 3 ft 3.4 in), its branches covered with soft hairs. The leaves overlap each other and are erect, egg-shaped or oblong, and usually less than 2.1 mm (0.083 in) long. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches in dense spikes of a few flowers with leaf-like bracts and broad, keeled bracteoles at the base. The sepals are about 2 mm (0.079 in) long and the petals white, about 4 mm (0.16 in) long, the lobes longer than the petal tube.[2][3]
Taxonomy
Leucopogon fimbriatus was first formally described in 1859 by Sergei Sergeyevich Sheglejev in the Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou from specimens collected by James Drummond.[2][4][5] The specific epithet (fimbriatus) means "fringed", referring to the leaves.[6]
Distribution and habitat
This leucopogon often grows in sandy soil and occurs in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia.[3]
Conservation status
Leucopogon fimbriatus is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.[3]
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