Leucopogon glabellus

Leucopogon glabellus is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, glabrous shrub with slender branchlets, heart-shaped to lance-shaped leaves, and cylindrical spikes of white flowers.

Leucopogon glabellus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Leucopogon
Species:
L. glabellus
Binomial name
Leucopogon glabellus
Occurrence data from AVH
Synonyms[1]
  • Leucopogon glabellus R.Br. var. glabellus
  • Leucopogon variifolius Sond.
  • Styphelia glabella (R.Br.) Spreng.
  • Styphelia variifolia (Sond.) F.Muell.

Description

Leucopogon glabellus is an erect or straggly shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.1–1 m (3.9 in – 3 ft 3.4 in) and has slender branchlets. Its leaves are heart-shaped to lance-shaped and 2–4 mm (0.079–0.157 in) long, narrower leaves sometimes to 6 mm (0.24 in) long. The flowers are arranged in cylindrical, many-flowered spikes on the ends of branches with small, leaf-like bracts and bracteoles less than half as long as the sepals. The sepals are less than 2 mm (0.079 in) long and the petals white and about 3 mm (0.12 in) long, forming a tube with lobes longer than the petal tube.[2][3]

Taxonomy

Leucopogon glabellus was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen .[4][5] The specific epithet (glabellus) means "glabrous".[6]

Distribution and habitat

This leucopogon grows in winter-wet places, on granite outcrops and on hills and is widespread in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.[3]

References
  1. "Leucopogon glabellus". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  2. Bentham, George (1868). Flora Australiensis. Vol. 4. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. pp. 193–194. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  3. "Leucopogon glabellus". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  4. "Leucopogon glabellus". APNI. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  5. Brown, Robert (1810). Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen. London. p. 544. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  6. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 206. ISBN 9780958034180.
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