| Leucopogon gracillimus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Leucopogon |
| Species: | L. gracillimus |
| Binomial name | |
| Leucopogon gracillimus | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
| Synonyms [3] | |
Leucopogon gracillimus is a shrub in the family Ericaceae. It is native to Western Australia. [4]
Leucopogon gracillimus is an erect slender shrub, growing to heights of from 0.2 m to 1.5 m high. Its white flowers are seen from May to September. [4]
It is found in the IBRA Regions of: Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, and the Swan Coastal Plain, growing on sandy and gravelly soils, on plains, low ridges, seasonally wet flats, and outcrops. [4]
It was first described in 1839 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. [1] [2] The specific epithet, gracillimus, derives from the Latin adjective, gracilis ("slender") and describes the plant as being very slender. [5]
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Leucopogon lloydiorum is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a slender shrub with elliptic leaves clustered near the ends of branchlets, and white, densely-bearded, tube-shaped flowers.
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Leucopogon penicillatus is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an slender, erect, spreading shrub with egg-shaped to narrowly triangular leaves and white, bell-shaped, bearded flowers arranged in groups of between 3 and 13.
Leucopogon racemulosus 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, rigid shrub with linear leaves and white, tube-shaped flowers usually arranged in pairs or threes in leaf axils.
Leucopogon rigidus is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It was first formally described in 1839 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in his Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis from an unpublished description by Allan Cunningham. The specific epithet (rigidus) means "hard" or "stiff", probably referring to the branchlets. Leucopogon rigidus is found in the Esperance Plains bioregion of southern Western Australia and is listed as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
Leucopogon tenuis is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with slender, wand-like branches, linear or narrowly lance-shaped leaves and white, tube-shaped flowers arranged in cylindrical spikes on the ends of branches.
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Styphelia epacridis is a flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a straggling shrub with lance-shaped or linear leaves with a sharp point on the tip, and red, tube-shaped flowers arranged singly in leaf axils.
