Leucopogon assimilis
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| Leucopogon assimilis | |
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| Near Bow Bridge | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Leucopogon |
| Species: | L. assimilis |
| Binomial name | |
| Leucopogon assimilis | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
Leucopogon assimilis is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is an erect, slender shrub with linear or lance-shaped leaves and pink to white, tube-shaped flowers.
Leucopogon assimilis is an erect, slender shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.3–1.5 m (1 ft 0 in – 4 ft 11 in) and has rigid linear or lance-shaped leaves 1.2–2.5 mm (0.047–0.098 in) long. The flowers are arranged in short, dense spikes near the ends of branches or in upper leaf axils with bracts and bracteoles about as long as the sepals. The sepals are 2.0–2.6 mm (0.079–0.102 in) long, the petals white to pink and joined at the base forming a tube 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) long, the lobes slightly longer than the petal tube. Flowering occurs from August to November.[2][3]
Taxonomy
Leucopogon assimilis was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.[4][5] The specific epithet (assimilis) means "similar".[6]