Leucopogon propinquus 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, rigid shrub with linear leaves and white, tube-shaped flowers usually arranged in pairs or threes in leaf axils.
Description
Leucopogon propinquus is a rigid, erect shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are rigid, linear, long with a rigid point on the end. The flowers are borne in leaf axils in pairs or threes, sometimes 4 or 5, on a short peduncle with small bracts, and bracteoles less than half as long as the sepals and with a rigid point on the tip. The sepals are about long, the petals white and joined at the base, forming a tube shorter than the sepals, the petal lobes longer than the petal tube and rolled back.
Taxonomy
Leucopogon propinquus was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen . The specific epithet (propinquus) means "related to".
Distribution
Leucopogon propinquus is found in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
Conservation status
This leucopogon is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
References
propinquus
Ericales of Australia
Flora of Western Australia
Plants described in 1810
Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)