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.
Description
Leucopogon glabellus is an erect or straggly shrub that typically grows to a height of and has slender branchlets. Its leaves are heart-shaped to lance-shaped and long, narrower leaves sometimes to 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 long and the petals white and about long, forming a tube with lobes longer than the petal tube.
Taxonomy
Leucopogon glabellus was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen. The specific epithet means "glabrous".
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.