Leucopogon strictus is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect, rigid, more or less glabrous shrub with oblong to lance-shaped leaves and white, tube-shaped flower arranged singly or in pairs in leaf axils.

Leucopogon strictus
Near Regans Ford
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Leucopogon
Species:
L. strictus
Binomial name
Leucopogon strictus
Occurrence data from AVH
Synonyms[1]

Styphelia stricta (Benth.) F.Muell.

Red form

Description

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Leucopogon strictus is an erect, rigid, more or less glabrous shrub with erect, oblong to lance-shaped leaves less than 12 mm (0.47 in) long. The leaves have a short, rigid point on the tip and the lower surface in often glaucous or whitish. The flowers are erect, arranged singly or in pairs in leaf axils, on a very short peduncle with short bracts and bracteoles about half as long as the sepals. The sepals are about 2 mm (0.079 in) long, and the petals white and joined at the base to form a tube about 6.5 mm (0.26 in) long, the lobes about 4 mm (0.16 in) long.[2][3]

Taxonomy and naming

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Leucopogon strictus was first formally described in 1868 by George Bentham in Flora Australiensis from specimens collected by James Drummond.[2][4] The specific epithet (strictus) means "very straight".[5][6]

Distribution

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This leucopogon occurs near Perth in the Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.[3]

Conservation status

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Leucopogon strictus is listed as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Leucopogon strictus". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
  2. ^ a b Bentham, George (1868). Flora Australiensis. Vol. 4. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. pp. 219–220. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
  3. ^ a b c "Styphelia stricta". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  4. ^ "Leucopogon strictus". APNI. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  5. ^ William T. Stearn (1992). Botanical Latin. History, grammar, syntax, terminology and vocabulary (4th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Timber Press. p. 506.
  6. ^ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 315. ISBN 9780958034180.