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

Styphelia imbricata (R.Br.) Spreng.

Leucopogon imbricatus is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to south-east Queensland. It is an erect shrub with glabrous branches, crowded, often overlapping, egg-shaped leaves, and white, bell-shaped flowers that are bearded inside.

Description

Leucopogon imbricatus is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of about 45 cm (18 in) and has widely-spreading, glabrous branches. Its leaves are sessile, egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base and less than 13 mm (0.51 in) long. The leaves are crowded, often overlapping, and have a fine sharp point on the rounded tip. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils on a short peduncle with small bracts and broad bracteoles less than half as long as the sepals. The sepals are about 3 mm (0.12 in) long and the petals white, forming a bell-shaped tube about as long as the sepals, with lobes about as long as the petal tube.[2]

Taxonomy

Leucopogon imbricatus was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.[3][4] The specific epithet (imbricatus) means "imbricate".[5]

Distribution

This leucopogon grows in south-east Queensland.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 "Leucopogon imbricatus". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  2. ↑ Bentham, George (1868). Flora Australiensis. Vol. 4. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. p. 215. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  3. ↑ "Leucopogon imbricatus". APNI. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  4. ↑ Brown, Robert (1810). Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen. London. p. 545. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  5. ↑ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 222. ISBN 9780958034180.
  6. ↑ "Leucopogon imbricatus". Atlas of Living Australia. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
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