Leucopogon glacialis
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| Leucopogon glacialis | |
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| Near Halls Gap | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Leucopogon |
| Species: | L. glacialis |
| Binomial name | |
| Leucopogon glacialis | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Styphelia glacialis (Lindl.) F.Muell. | |
Leucopogon glacialis, the twisted beard-heath,[2][3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a spreading to erect shrub with narrowly egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves, and crowded spikes of white flowers.
Leucopogon glacialis is a slender, spreading to erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 15–60 cm (5.9–23.6 in) and has brownish, softly-hairy branchlets. Its leaves are more or less erect, narrowly egg-shaped to lance-shaped, 3–12 mm (0.12–0.47 in) long, 0.6–1.3 mm (0.024–0.051 in) wide, and usually spirally twisted. The flowers are arranged in crowded spikes of six to twelve, 4–10 mm (0.16–0.39 in) long on the ends of branches and in upper leaf axils with egg-shaped bracteoles 0.8–1.2 mm (0.031–0.047 in) long. The sepals are oblong to egg-shaped, 1.3–2.5 mm (0.051–0.098 in) long, the petals white and 1.5–3 mm (0.059–0.118 in) long, forming a tube with lobes slightly longer than the petal tube. Flowering occurs from April to September and the fruit is an oval drupe about 2 mm (0.079 in) long.[2][3]