Biology:Leucopogon multiflorus
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Leucopogon |
| Species: | L. multiflorus
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| Binomial name | |
| Leucopogon multiflorus R.Br.[1]
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Leucopogon multiflorus is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a rigid shrub with crowded, sharply-pointed, linear to lance-shaped leaves, and white, tube-shaped flowers usually in groups in leaf axils.
Description
Leucopogon multiflorus is a stout, rigid shrub with sotly-hairy branches. Its leaves are crowded, linear to lance-shaped, concave, about 12 mm (0.47 in) long and sharply-pointed. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils in groups of 3, 4 or more on a short peduncle with bracts and bracteoles less than half as long as the sepals. The sepals are about 2 mm (0.079 in) long and narrow, the petals white and about 4 mm (0.16 in) long, forming a tube with lobes about as long as the petal tube.[2][3]
Taxonomy
Leucopogon multiflorus was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.[4][5] The specific epithet (multiflorus) means "many-flowered".[6]
Distribution
This leucopogon occurs in the Esperance Plains bioregion of south-western Western Australia.[3]
Conservation status
Leucopogon multiflorus is listed as "Priority One" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions,[3] meaning that it is known from only one or a few locations which are potentially at risk.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Leucopogon multiflorus". Australian Plant Census. https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/111610.
- ↑ Bentham, George (1868). Flora Australiensis. 4. London: Lovell Reeve & Co.. pp. 221–222. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11266443#page/231/mode/1up. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Styphelia multiflora". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife. https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/49812.
- ↑ "Leucopogon multiflorus". APNI. https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/544243.
- ↑ Brown, Robert (1810). Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen. London. p. 542. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6157371#page/410/mode/1up. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
- ↑ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 256. ISBN 9780958034180.
- ↑ "Conservation codes for Western Australian Flora and Fauna". Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife. https://www.dpaw.wa.gov.au/images/documents/plants-animals/threatened-species/Listings/Conservation%20code%20definitions.pdf. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
Wikidata ☰ Q17244327 entry
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