Leucopogon oliganthus is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, open shrub with white, tube-shaped flowers from August to November.[2]
It was first formally described in 1904 by Ernst Georg Pritzel in Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie from specimens collected between Moora and Dandaragan.[3][4] The specific epithet, oliganthus, derives from the Greek: oligos ("few" or "scanty") and anthos ("flower") to give an adjective describing the plant as having "few or small flowers".[5]
Leucopogon oliganthus grows in sandy soil with lateritic gravel on sandplains and dunes in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia, and is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.[2]
References
- ^ a b "Leucopogon oliganthus". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
- ^ a b "Leucopogon oliganthus". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
- ^ "Leucopogon oliganthus". APNI. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
- ^ Diels, Ludwig; Pritzel, Ernst G. (1904). "Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse". Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie. 35 (2–3): 474. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
- ^ "oliganthus,-a,-um". www.plantillustrations.org. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
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