Leucopogon tenuis

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

Styphelia tenuis(DC.) F.Muell.

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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Description

Leucopogon tenuis is an erect, glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of 25–70 cm (9.8–27.6 in) and has slender, wand-like branches. Its leaves are linear to narrowly lance-shaped, less than 12 mm (0.47 in) long on a short petiole. The flowers are arranged in cylindrical, many-flowered spikes on the ends of branches with lance-shaped, leaf-like bracts and bracteoles less than half as long as the sepals. The sepals are about 2.6 mm (0.10 in) long, narrow and pointed, and the petals white and joined at the base, forming a tube but with lobes that are much longer than the petal tube. Flowering occurs from March or June to November. [2] [3]

Taxonomy

Leucopogon tenuis was first formally described in 1839 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in his Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis from specimens collected by James Drummond in the Swan River Colony. [4] [5] The specific epithet (tenuis) means "thin" or "delicate". [6]

Distribution and habitat

This leucopogon grows on ridges, in swamps and on flats in the Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions in the south-west of Western Australia. [3]

Conservation status

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

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References

  1. 1 2 "Leucopogon tenuis". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
  2. Bentham, George (1868). Flora Australiensis. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. pp. 197–198. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 "Leucopogon tenuis". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  4. "Leucopogon tenuis". APNI. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  5. de Candolle, Augustin P. (1839). Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis. Vol. 7. Paris. p. 744. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
  6. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 321. ISBN   9780958034180.