Leucopogon oliganthus

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]

Leucopogon oliganthus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Leucopogon
Species:
L. oliganthus
Binomial name
Leucopogon oliganthus
Occurrence data from AVH
Synonyms[1]

Styphelia oligantha (E.Pritz.) Sleumer

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
  1. "Leucopogon oliganthus". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
  2. "Leucopogon oliganthus". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  3. "Leucopogon oliganthus". APNI. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
  4. 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.
  5. "oliganthus,-a,-um". www.plantillustrations.org. Retrieved 4 May 2020.


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