Leucopogon multiflorus

Priority Two — Poorly Known Taxa (DEC)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Leucopogon
Species:
L. multiflorus
Binomial name
Leucopogon multiflorus
Occurrence data from AVH
Synonyms[1]
  • Leucopogon fraseri A.Cunn. ex DC. nom. illeg.
  • Leucopogon multiflorus R.Br. var. multiflorus
  • Styphelia fraseri F.Muell.
  • Styphelia multiflora (R.Br.) Spreng.

Leucopogon multiflorus is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a rigid shrub with crowded, sharply-pointed, linear to lance-shaped leaves, and white, tube-shaped flowers usually in groups in leaf axils.

Description

Leucopogon multiflorus is a stout, rigid shrub with sotly-hairy branches. Its leaves are crowded, linear to lance-shaped, concave, about 12 mm (0.47 in) long and sharply-pointed. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils in groups of 3, 4 or more on a short peduncle with bracts and bracteoles less than half as long as the sepals. The sepals are about 2 mm (0.079 in) long and narrow, the petals white and about 4 mm (0.16 in) long, forming a tube with lobes about as long as the petal tube.[2][3]

Taxonomy

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

Distribution

This leucopogon occurs in the Esperance Plains bioregion of south-western Western Australia.[3]

Conservation status

Leucopogon multiflorus is listed as "Priority One" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions,[3] meaning that it is known from only one or a few locations which are potentially at risk.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 "Leucopogon multiflorus". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  2. ↑ Bentham, George (1868). Flora Australiensis. Vol. 4. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. pp. 221–222. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 "Styphelia multiflora". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  4. ↑ "Leucopogon multiflorus". APNI. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  5. ↑ Brown, Robert (1810). Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen. London. p. 542. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  6. ↑ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 256. ISBN 9780958034180.
  7. ↑ "Conservation codes for Western Australian Flora and Fauna" (PDF). Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
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