Leucopogon elegans

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Leucopogon elegans
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Subspecies elegans
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Leucopogon
Species:
L. elegans
Binomial name
Leucopogon elegans
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Occurrence data from AVH
Synonyms [1]

Styphelia blepharophylla F.Muell. nom. illeg.

Leucopogon elegans is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading shrub with egg-shaped leaves, and white or pink, tube-shaped flowers densely bearded on the inside.

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Description

Leucopogon elegans is an erect or spreading shrub that typically grows up to a height of 50 cm (20 in) high and wide. Its leaves are narrowly egg-shaped to egg-shaped, 3.4–7.5 mm (0.13–0.30 in) long, 1.5–3.1 mm (0.059–0.122 in) wide and directed upwards on a petiole 0.5–1.6 mm (0.020–0.063 in) long. The flowers are arranged in groups of 4 to 11 on the ends of branches and in upper leaf axils with egg-shaped bracts and bracteoles at the base. The sepals are narrowly egg-shaped, 2.1–3.5 mm (0.083–0.138 in) long, the petals white or pink and joined at the base to form a narrowly bell-shaped tube 1.9–2.3 mm (0.075–0.091 in) long, the lobes 2.1–3.0 mm (0.083–0.118 in) long and densely hairy on the inside. Flowering mainly occurs from June to November. [2] [3]

Taxonomy and naming

Leucopogon elegans was first formally described in 1845 by Otto Wilhelm Sonder in Johann Georg Christian Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae . [4] [5] The specific epithet (elegans) means "fine" or "elegant". [6]

In 2009, Michael Clyde Hislop described two subspecies of L. elegans in the journal Nuytsia , and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:

Distribution and habitat

Subspecies elegans grows in winter-wet heath and low woodland and is common between Two Peoples Bay and Cheynes Beach, and occurs in scattered locations from there to the southern Stirling Range in the Esperance Plains and Jarrah Forest bioregions of south-western Western Australia. [3] [9] Subspecies psorophyllus grows in heath or mallee woodland between Wellstead, Cape Riche and the Pallinup River in the Esperance Plains bioregion. [3] [10]

Conservation status

Leucopogon elegans subsp. elegans is classified as "not threatened" [9] but subsp. psorophyllus is listed as "Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, [10] meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat. [11]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Leucopogon elegans". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  2. ↑ "Leucopogon elegans". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Hislop, Michael C. (2009). "New taxa in the Leucopogon gracilis group (Ericaceae: Styphelioideae: Styphelieae)" (PDF). Nuytsia. 19 (2): 214–218. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  4. ↑ "Leucopogon elegans". APNI. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  5. ↑ Sonder, Otto W. (1845). Lehmann, Johann G.C. (ed.). Plantae Preissianae. Vol. 1. Hamburg. p. 318. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  6. ↑ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 190. ISBN   9780958034180.
  7. ↑ "Leucopogon elegans subsp. elegans". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  8. ↑ "Leucopogon elegans subsp. psorophyllus". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  9. 1 2 "Leucopogon elegans subsp. elegans". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  10. 1 2 "Leucopogon elegans subsp. psorophyllus". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  11. ↑ "Conservation codes for Western Australian Flora and Fauna" (PDF). Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
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