Leucopogon squarrosus

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Leucopogon squarrosus
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Leucopogon
Species:
L. squarrosus
Binomial name
Leucopogon squarrosus
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Occurrence data from AVH
Synonyms [1]
  • Leucopogon squarrosusBenth. var. squarrosus
  • Styphelia squarrosa(Benth.) F.Muell.

Leucopogon squarrosus 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 hairy young branchlets, egg-shaped or elliptic leaves and dense, erect clusters of 5 to 14 white flowers on the ends of branches and in upper leaf axils.

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Description

Leucopogon squarrosus is an erect shrub that typically grows up to 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) high and 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) wide, its young branchlets usually covered with straight or curved hairs. The leaves are usually spirally arranged, egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, or elliptic, 2.2–8.2 mm (0.087–0.323 in) long, 0.9–4.4 mm (0.035–0.173 in) wide and sessile or on a petiole up to 0.3 mm (0.012 in) long. Both surfaces of the leaves are more of less glabrous, the lower surface a slightly paler shade of green. The flowers are arranged in groups of 5 to 14 on the ends of branchlets and in upper leaf axils, with narrowly egg-shaped bracts 1.7–2.4 mm (0.067–0.094 in) long, and egg-shaped bracteoles 1.5–2.6 mm (0.059–0.102 in) long. The sepals are narrowly egg-shaped, 2.5–3.6 mm (0.098–0.142 in) long, and the petals white and joined at the base to form a bell-shaped tube 1.0–1.8 mm (0.039–0.071 in) long, the lobes 2.1–3.0 mm (0.083–0.118 in) long widely spreading, curved backwards and densely bearded inside. Flowering occurs from February to October and the fruit is an elliptic or oval drupe 1.3–1.9 mm (0.051–0.075 in) long. [2] [3]

Taxonomy and naming

Leucopogon squarrosus was first formally described in 1837 by George Bentham in Endlicher's Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus Liber Baro de Hügel from specimens collected by Charles von Hügel in the Swan River Colony. [4] The specific epithet (squarrosus) means "squarrose" or "rough with scales", referring to the leaves. [5] [6]

In 2012, Michael Hislop described two subspecies of L. squarrosus in the journal Nuytsia and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census: [2]

Distribution and habitat

Subspecies squarrosus grows in heathland in the understorey of Banksia woodland or in winter-wet heath between the southern suburbs of Perth to near Gingin in the Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia. [2] [9] Subspecies trigynus is apparently restricted to an area to the west and south-west of Gingin. [10]

Conservation status

Leucopogon squarrosus is listed as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, [3] but subsp. trigynus is listed as "Priority Two", [10] meaning that it is poorly known and from only one or a few locations. [11]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Leucopogon squarrosus". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Hislop, Michael (2012). "Two new species from the Leucopogon distans group (Ericaceae: Styphelioideae: Styphelieae) and the reinstatement of L. penicillatus". Nuytsia. 22 (1): 82–86. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
  3. 1 2 "Leucopogon squarrosus". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  4. ↑ "Leucopogon squarrosus". APNI. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
  5. ↑ William T. Stearn (1992). Botanical Latin. History, grammar, syntax, terminology and vocabulary (4th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Timber Press. p. 501.
  6. ↑ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 312. ISBN   9780958034180.
  7. ↑ "Leucopogon squarrosussubsp. squarrosus". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
  8. ↑ "Leucopogon squarrosus subsp. trigynus". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
  9. ↑ "Leucopogon squarrosus subsp. squarrosus". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  10. 1 2 "Leucopogon squarrosus subsp. trigynus". 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 23 May 2023.
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