Leucopogon rodwayi is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to coastal New South Wales. It is an erect to spreading shrub with narrowly egg-shaped to elliptic leaves, and pendent, white, tube-shaped flowers arranged in groups of 6 to 15 in leaf axils, forming a spike up to 8 mm (0.31 in) long.
| Leucopogon rodwayi | |
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| In Booderee National Park | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Leucopogon |
| Species: | L. rodwayi
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| Binomial name | |
| Leucopogon rodwayi | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Styphelia rodwayi (Summerh.) Sleumer | |
Description
editLeucopogon rodwayi is an erect to spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 25–80 cm (9.8–31.5 in), its young branchlets covered with a few soft hairs. The leaves are narrowly egg-shaped to elliptic, 3.8–10.5 mm (0.15–0.41 in) long and 0.9–1.9 mm (0.035–0.075 in) wide on a petiole up to 1 mm (0.039 in) long. Both sides of the leaves are glabrous, the edges are turned down, and there are a few small teeth on the edges. The flowers are borne in spikes of 6 to 15 up to 8 mm (0.31 in) long in leaf axils with bracteoles 0.8–1 mm (0.031–0.039 in) long at the base. The sepals are 1.0–1.35 mm (0.039–0.053 in) long, the petals white and joined at the base, forming a tube 0.6–0.8 mm (0.024–0.031 in) long, the lobes 0.6–0.9 mm (0.024–0.035 in) long. Flowering occurs from February to October, with a peak in August and September, and the fruit is about 2.3 mm (0.091 in) long and glabrous.[2][3]
Taxonomy
editLeucopogon rodwayi was first formally described in 1926 by Victor Summerhayes in the Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew from specimens collected by Frederick Rodway near Jervis Bay in 1925.[4]
Distribution
editLeucopogon rodwayi grows in sand in coastal heath on ridges and rock platforms from Broadwater to Myall Lakes and at Jervis Bay in eastern New South Wales.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b "Leucopogon rodwayi". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
- ^ Wakefield, Norman A. (1956). "Flora of Victoria: New species and other additions - 8". The Victorian Naturalist. 73 (4): 59. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
- ^ a b Powell, Jocelyn M. "Leucopogon rodwayi". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
- ^ "Leucopogon rodwayi". APNI. Retrieved 3 May 2023.