Species of plant
Leucopogon obtusatus is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.25–1 m (9.8 in – 3 ft 3.4 in). Its leaves are sessile, egg-shaped to oblong, overlap each other and are about 2 mm (0.079 in) long. The flowers are arranged in short, dense spikes on the ends of branches or in upper leaf axils with leaf-like bracts and broad bracteoles less than half as long as the sepals. The sepals are about 2 mm (0.079 in) long, the petals about 4 mm (0.16 in) long and joined at the base, the lobes shorter than the petal tube.[2][3]
The species was first formally described in 1845 by Otto Wilhelm Sonder in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae from specimens collected near York in 1839.[4] The specific epithet (obtusatus) means "blunt-possessing", referring to the leaf tips.[5]
Leucopogon obtusatus occurs in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia and is listed "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.[3]
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