Leucopogon cordifolius, commonly known as heart-leaved beard-heath, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is an erect shrub with broadly egg-shaped to round leaves, and white, tube-shaped flowers, the petals bearded on the inside.
Description
Leucopogon cordifolius is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of and has softly-hairy branchlets. Its leaves are broadly egg-shaped to round, long and wide and curve downwards with a short bristle on the tip. The flowers are arranged in spikes long in leaf axils, each spike with up to three flowers with broadly egg-shaped to round bracteoles long at the base. The sepals are egg-shaped, long, the petals white and joined at the base to form a tube long, the lobes long and bearded on the inside.
Taxonomy
Leucopogon cordifolius was first formally described in 1838 by John Lindley in Thomas Mitchell's journal, Three Expeditions into the interior of Eastern Australia. The specific epithet (cordifolius) means "heart-leaved".
The National Herbarium of Victoria and Western Australian Herbarium give the name Styphelia cordifolia.
Distribution and habitat
Heart-leaved beard-heath grows in the understorey of woodland and in heathland in the far north-west of Victoria, the south-east of South Australia, and disjunctly in the Carnarvon, Geraldton Sandplains, Yalgoo bioregions in the west of Western Australia.
References
cordifolius
Ericales of Australia
Flora of Victoria (state) Flora of South Australia Flora of Western Australia Plants described in 1838 Taxa named by John Lindley