Leucopogon melaleucoides
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| Leucopogon melaleucoides | |
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| Near Emmaville | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Leucopogon |
| Species: | L. melaleucoides |
| Binomial name | |
| Leucopogon melaleucoides | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
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Leucopogon melaleucoides is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect, densely branched shrub with lance-shaped or egg-shaped leaves, and white, tube-shaped flowers arranged in spikes in upper leaf axils.
Leucopogon melaleucoides is an erect, densely branched shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.7–1 m (2 ft 4 in – 3 ft 3 in), and has softly-hairy branchlets. The leaves are lance-shaped to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 5–20.8 mm (0.20–0.82 in) long and 0.6–2.8 mm (0.024–0.110 in) wide on a petiole up to 1 mm (0.039 in) long. The leaves are more or less glabrous and the lower surface is finely striated. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils in spikes of 3 to 15, up to 23 mm (0.91 in) long, with bracteoles 1.15–1.3 mm (0.045–0.051 in) long at the base. The sepals are 1.9–2.4 mm (0.075–0.094 in) long, the petals white and joined at the base to form a tube 1.9–2.8 mm (0.075–0.110 in) long with lobes 2.5–3.0 mm (0.098–0.118 in) long. Flowering occurs from June to November and the fruit is a glabrous, oval drupe 2.5–2.8 mm (0.098–0.110 in) long.[2]