Leucopogon lasiostachyus

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Leucopogon lasiostachyus
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Leucopogon
Species:
L. lasiostachyus
Binomial name
Leucopogon lasiostachyus
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Occurrence data from AVH
Synonyms [1]

Styphelia lasiostachya(Stschegl.) F.Muell.

Leucopogon lasiostachyus 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 with egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves and dense, cylindrical spikes of tube-shaped white flowers on the ends of branches and in leaf axils.

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Description

Leucopogon lasiostachyus is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.25–1.2 m (9.8 in – 3 ft 11.2 in) and has wand-like branches and foliage covered with soft hairs. The leaves are egg-shaped to lance-shaped, usually 4–8.5 mm (0.16–0.33 in) long and prominently ribbed on the lower surface. The flowers are arranged in dense, cylindrical spikes 12–25 mm (0.47–0.98 in) long on the ends of branches or in upper leaf axils with lance-shaped or linear bracts and egg-shaped bracteoles more than half as long as long as the sepals. The sepals and bracts are shaggy-hairy, the sepals about 3 mm (0.12 in) long and the petals white, forming a tube much shorter than the sepals, the lobes about twice as long as the petal tube. [2] [3]

Taxonomy

Leucopogon lasiostachyus was first formally described in 1859 by Sergei Sergeyevich Sheglejev in the Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou from specimens collected by James Drummond. [4] [5] The specific epithet (lasiostachyus) means "shaggy- or woolly-hairy flower spike". [6]

Distribution and habitat

This leucopogon grows in rocky soils on sandplains, ridge tops and hills in the Esperance Plains and Jarrah Forest bioregions of south-western Western Australia. [3]

Conservation status

Leucopogon lasiostachyus is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. [3]

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References

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  2. Bentham, George (1868). Flora Australiensis. Vol. 4. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. p. 195. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 "Leucopogon lasiostachyus". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  4. "Leucopogon lasiostachyus". APNI. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
  5. Sheglejev, Sergei Sergeyevich (1859). "Epacridearum Novarum". Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou. 32 (1): 11–12. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
  6. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 235. ISBN   9780958034180.