Leucopogon collinus
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| Leucopogon collinus | |
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| Near Port Arthur, Tasmania | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Leucopogon |
| Species: | L. collinus |
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| Leucopogon collinus | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
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Leucopogon collinus, commonly known as fringed beard-heath,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a slender, erect or spreading shrub with narrowly lance-shaped leaves, and white, tube-shaped, bearded flowers.
Leucopogon collinus is a slender, erect or spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 60 cm (24 in), its branchlets with minute, bristly hairs. Its leaves are glabrous, narrowly lance-shaped to oblong, 3–13.4 mm (0.12–0.53 in) long and 0.9–2.7 mm (0.035–0.106 in) wide on a petiole 0.3–1 mm (0.012–0.039 in) long. The flowers are crowded on the ends of branches or in upper leaf axils forming spikes 5–13 mm (0.20–0.51 in) long with egg-shaped bracteoles 0.7–1.7 mm (0.028–0.067 in) long. The sepals are egg-shaped, 1.3–2 mm (0.051–0.079 in) long, the petals white and joined at the base to form a tube 0.8–1.4 mm (0.031–0.055 in) long, the lobes 1.3–1.6 mm (0.051–0.063 in) long and densely bearded on the inside. Flowering occurs from July to October and is followed by an elliptic drupe about 2.5 mm (0.1 in) long.[2][3]