Leucopogon costatus
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| Leucopogon costatus | |
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| In the Australian National Botanic Gardens | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Leucopogon |
| Species: | L. costatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Leucopogon costatus | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Styphelia costata F.Muell. | |
Leucopogon costatus, commonly known as twiggy beard-heath,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to southern continental Australia. It is an erect or straggling shrub with broadly egg-shaped, stem-clasping leaves, and white, tube-shaped flowers, the petals densely bearded on the inside.
Leucopogon costatus is a slender, erect or straggling erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 50 cm (20 in) and has softly-hairy young branchlets. Its leaves are broadly egg-shaped, 1.5–5 mm (0.059–0.197 in) long and 1.0–3.5 mm (0.039–0.138 in) wide with a stem-clasping base. The flowers are arranged in spikes of up to four 4–7 mm (0.16–0.28 in) long in leaf axils or on the ends of branches, with egg-shaped bracteoles 1.0–1.3 mm (0.039–0.051 in) long at the base. The sepals are egg-shaped, 1.6–2.3 mm (0.063–0.091 in) long, the petals white and joined at the base to form a cylindrical or bell-shaped tube 1.1–1.5 mm (0.043–0.059 in) long, the lobes 1.2–1.8 mm (0.047–0.071 in) long and densely bearded on the inside.[2][3]