Biology:Leucopogon glaucifolius
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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. glaucifolius
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| Binomial name | |
| Leucopogon glaucifolius W.Fitzg.[1]
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Leucopogon glaucifolius is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with linear, sharply-pointed leaves, and white, tube-shaped flowers.
Description
Leucopogon glaucifolius is an erect or spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of less than 30 cm (12 in) and has branches covered with fine hairs. Its leaves are glabrous, linear, 8.5–12.7 mm (0.33–0.50 in) long and sharply pointed. The flowers are borne in leaf axils in groups of mostly three on a short peduncle with small bracts and egg-shaped bracteoles less than half as long as the sepals. The sepals are about 3 mm (0.12 in) long and the petals white and about 4.7 mm (0.19 in) long, forming a tube with lobes shorter than the sepals and with the ends rolled under. The fruit is an almost spherical drupe about 3.7 mm (0.15 in) long.[2]
Taxonomy
Leucopogon glaucifolius was first formally described in 1903 by William Vincent Fitzgerald in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales from specimens collected near Midland Junction in 1902.[2][3] The specific epithet (glaucifolius) means "glaucous-leaved".[4]
Distribution
This leucopogon occurs in the Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.[5]
References
- ↑ "Leucopogon glaucifolius". Australian Plant Census. https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/99597.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Fitzgerald, William V. (1903). "Descriptions of some new species of West Australian Plants.". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 104–105. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6398673#page/120/mode/1up. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
- ↑ "Leucopogon glaucifolius". APNI. https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/526217.
- ↑ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 207. ISBN 9780958034180.
- ↑ "Styphelia glaucifolia". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife. https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/49805.
Wikidata ☰ Q17243855 entry
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