Leucopogon gracilis

Leucopogon gracilis is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a spindly shrub with wiry branchlets, linear to lance-shaped leaves, and dense spikes of white or pinkish flowers.

Description

Leucopogon gracilis is a spindly shrub that typically grows to a height of and has wiry branchlets. Its leaves are linear to lance-shaped, usually long with 3 or 5 prominent ribs. The flowers are arranged in dense spikes on the ends of branches with small bracts and lance-shaped bracteoles about half as long as the sepals. The sepals are about long and the petals white or pinkish and about long, forming a tube with lobes about the same length as the petal tube. Flowering occurs from July to December or from January to March.

Taxonomy

Leucopogon gracilis was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen. The specific epithet,, means "slender" or "thin". A holotype, collected by Robert Brown at King George's Sound is kept at Kew Gardens.