Leucopogon glabellus

Leucopogon glabellus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Leucopogon
Species:
L. glabellus
Binomial name
Leucopogon glabellus
Occurrence data from AVH
Synonyms[1]
  • Leucopogon glabellus R.Br. var. glabellus
  • Leucopogon variifolius Sond.
  • Styphelia glabella (R.Br.) Spreng.
  • Styphelia variifolia (Sond.) F.Muell.

Leucopogon glabellus is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, glabrous shrub with slender branchlets, heart-shaped to lance-shaped leaves, and cylindrical spikes of white flowers.

Description

Leucopogon glabellus is an erect or straggly shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.1–1 m (3.9 in – 3 ft 3.4 in) and has slender branchlets. Its leaves are heart-shaped to lance-shaped and 2–4 mm (0.079–0.157 in) long, narrower leaves sometimes to 6 mm (0.24 in) long. The flowers are arranged in cylindrical, many-flowered spikes on the ends of branches with small, leaf-like bracts and bracteoles less than half as long as the sepals. The sepals are less than 2 mm (0.079 in) long and the petals white and about 3 mm (0.12 in) long, forming a tube with lobes longer than the petal tube.[2][3]

Taxonomy

Leucopogon glabellus was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen .[4][5] The specific epithet (glabellus) means "glabrous".[6]

Distribution and habitat

This leucopogon grows in winter-wet places, on granite outcrops and on hills and is widespread in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Leucopogon glabellus". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  2. ^ Bentham, George (1868). Flora Australiensis. Vol. 4. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. pp. 193–194. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Leucopogon glabellus". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  4. ^ "Leucopogon glabellus". APNI. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  5. ^ Brown, Robert (1810). Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen. London. p. 544. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  6. ^ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 206. ISBN 9780958034180.