Lissanthe pleurandroides

Lissanthe pleurandroides is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is an erect, moderately dense shrub with oblong leaves and spikes of tube-shaped, white or pink flowers.

Description

Lissanthe pleurandroides is an erect, moderately dense shrub that typically grows to high, its branchlets covered sometimes with short, soft hairs. The leaves are oblong, long on a petiole long with two longitudinal furrows on the lower surface. The flowers are borne in dense spike or clusters on the ends of the branches on a spike about the same length as the leaves with very small bracts and bracteoles less than half the length of the sepals. The sepals are about long with soft hairs on the edges. The petal are joined at the base, forming a tube about long with lobes about long.

Taxonomy

This species was first formally described in 1863 by Ferdinand von Mueller who gave it the name Leucopogon pleurandroides in his Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected by George Maxwell. In 2005, Darren Crayn and Michael Hislop transferred the species to Lissanthe as L. pleurandroides. The specific epithet means "Pleurandra-like"..

Distribution and habitat

Lissanthe pleurandroides grows in chalky soils in coastal or near-coastal areas in the Esperance Plains bioregion of southern Western Australia.