Leucopogon plumuliflorus

Leucopogon plumuliflorus is a slender, weakly erect, multi-stemmed shrub that typically grows to a height of 30–60 cm (12–24 in), its branches and leaves more or less softly-hairy. The leaves are egg-shaped with a heart-shaped base, less than 13 mm (0.51 in) long and convex, with the edges turned down. The flowers are arranged in spike-like heads on the ends of branches, with small bracts and hairy, egg-shaped bracteoles 1.6 mm (0.063 in) long. The sepals are linear to lance-shaped, 5.3 mm (0.21 in) long, the petals white or pinkish-white, 3.2 mm (0.13 in) and joined at the base, the petal lobes shorter than the petal tube. Flowering occurs from April or from July to November and the fruit is a drupe.[1][3]

Leucopogon plumuliflorus was first formally described in 1867 by Ferdinand von Mueller who gave it the name Styphelia plumuliflora in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected by James Drummond.[4][5] In 1868, George Bentham transferred the species to Leucopogon as L. pumuliflorus in Flora Australiensis.[3][6] The specific epithet (plumuliflorus) means "little feather-flowered", referring to the sepals.[7]

This leucopogon grows on lateritic sandy soils, amongst boulders and on hillslopes in the Geraldton Sandplains bioregion of south-western Western Australia.[1]

Leucopogon plumuliflorus is listed as "Priority Two" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions,[1] meaning that it is poorly known and from only one or a few locations.[8]