Leucopogon rodwayi
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| Leucopogon rodwayi | |
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| In Booderee National Park | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Leucopogon |
| Species: | L. rodwayi |
| Binomial name | |
| Leucopogon rodwayi | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Styphelia rodwayi (Summerh.) Sleumer | |
Leucopogon rodwayi is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to coastal New South Wales. It is an erect to spreading shrub with narrowly egg-shaped to elliptic leaves, and pendent, white, tube-shaped flowers arranged in groups of 6 to 15 in leaf axils, forming a spike up to 8 mm (0.31 in) long.
Leucopogon rodwayi is an erect to spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 25–80 cm (9.8–31.5 in), its young branchlets covered with a few soft hairs. The leaves are narrowly egg-shaped to elliptic, 3.8–10.5 mm (0.15–0.41 in) long and 0.9–1.9 mm (0.035–0.075 in) wide on a petiole up to 1 mm (0.039 in) long. Both sides of the leaves are glabrous, the edges are turned down, and there are a few small teeth on the edges. The flowers are borne in spikes of 6 to 15 up to 8 mm (0.31 in) long in leaf axils with bracteoles 0.8–1 mm (0.031–0.039 in) long at the base. The sepals are 1.0–1.35 mm (0.039–0.053 in) long, the petals white and joined at the base, forming a tube 0.6–0.8 mm (0.024–0.031 in) long, the lobes 0.6–0.9 mm (0.024–0.035 in) long. Flowering occurs from February to October, with a peak in August and September, and the fruit is about 2.3 mm (0.091 in) long and glabrous.[2][3]