Leucopogon gelidus
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| Leucopogon gelidus | |
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| Near Tidbinbilla | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Leucopogon |
| Species: | L. gelidus |
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| Leucopogon gelidus | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
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Leucopogon gelidus is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is native to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a slender, compact shrub with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves, and spikes of drooping, tube-shaped white flowers.
Leucopogon gelidus is a slender, compact shrub that typically grows to a height of up to about 2 m (6 ft 7 in) and has sparsely softly-hairy branchlets. Its leaves are more or less erect, egg-shaped to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 10–25 mm (0.39–0.98 in) long, 2–6.5 mm (0.079–0.256 in) wide and glabrous. The flowers droop and are arranged in spikes of 3 to 8, 7–15 mm (0.28–0.59 in) long with egg-shaped bracteoles 1.4–2.3 mm (0.055–0.091 in) long at the base. The sepals are egg-shaped, 2.5–3.0 mm (0.098–0.118 in) long, the petals forming a tube 2.1–4.8 mm (0.083–0.189 in) long and softly-hairy inside, the petal lobes 1.3–2.4 mm (0.051–0.094 in) long. Flowering mainly occurs from September to February and the fruit is a glabrous, pink to red, oval to spherical drupe 3.5–4.0 mm (0.14–0.16 in) long.[2][3]