Leucopogon penicillatus
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| Leucopogon penicillatus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Leucopogon |
| Species: | L. penicillatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Leucopogon penicillatus | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Styphelia pendula (R.Br.) Spreng. | |
Leucopogon penicillatus is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an slender, erect, spreading shrub with egg-shaped to narrowly triangular leaves and white, bell-shaped, bearded flowers arranged in groups of between 3 and 13.
Leucopogon penicillatus is a slender, erect, spreading shrub that typically grows up to 90 m (300 ft) high and 70 cm (28 in) wide, its young stems densely hairy. The leaves are arranged spirally along the branches and are egg-shaped to narrowly triangular, 2.0–4.6 mm (0.079–0.181 in) long and 1.0–2.3 mm (0.039–0.091 in) wide on a petiole 0.2–0.6 mm (0.0079–0.0236 in) long. The flowers are erect and arranged on the ends of branches and in upper leaf axils in groups of between 3 and 13 with bracts 0.9–1.6 mm (0.035–0.063 in) long, and egg-shaped bracteoles 1.7–2.5 mm (0.067–0.098 in) long. The sepals are egg-shaped, 2.8–3.8 mm (0.11–0.15 in) long, and the petals are white and joined at the base, forming a bell-shaped tube 1.5–2.0 mm (0.059–0.079 in) long, with widely-spreading, bearded lobes 3.4–4.4 mm (0.13–0.17 in) long. The fruit is a drupe 1.8–2.1 mm (0.071–0.083 in) long.[2][3]
Taxonomy
Leucopogon penicillatus was first formally described in 1859 by Sergei Sergeyevich Sheglejev in the Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou from specimens collected by James Drummond.[4][5] The specific epithet (penicillatus) means "possessing a small brush", referring to the petal lobes.[6]