Leucopogon neoanglicus, commonly known as New England beard heath, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with egg-shaped leaves, sometimes with the narrower end towards the base, and white, tube-shaped flowers arranged singly in leaf axils and bearded inside.
Description
Leucopogon neoanglicus is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to , its branchlets with a rough surface. The leaves are broadly egg-shaped leaves, to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide on a petiole about long. The leaves are glabrous with 3 parallel veins in the centre and others spreading. The flowers are erect and arranged in leaf axils with bracteoles long at the base. The sepals are long, the petals white and joined at the base to form a tube long with lobes long and bearded inside. Flowering occurs from March to October and the fruit is a glabrous, reddish-brown elliptic drupe about long.
Taxonomy
Leucopogon neoanglicus was first formally described in 1868 by George Bentham in his Flora Australiensis from an unpublished description by Ferdinand von Mueller.
Distribution and habitat
New England beard-heath usually grows in sandy soil on rocky outcrops on the coast and nearby tablelands at altitudes up to , from south-east Queensland to the Budawang Range in south-eastern New South Wales.