''Leucopogon'' is a genus of about 150-160 species of shrubs or small trees in the family

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, in the section of that family formerly treated as the separate family Epacridaceae. They are native to Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, the western Pacific Islands and Malaysia, with the greatest species diversity in southeastern Australia. Plants in this genus have leaves with a few more or less parallel veins, and tube-shaped flowers usually with a white beard inside.

Description

Plants in the genus ''Leucopogon'' range from prostrate shrubs to small trees. The leaves are arranged alternately and usually have about three, more or less parallel veins visible on the lower surface. The flowers are arranged in leaf

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s or on the ends of branchlets either singly or in spikes of a few to many flowers. There is a single egg-shaped to circular bract and a pair of similar bracteoles at the base of each flower immediately below the five

sepal A sepal () is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants). Usually green, sepals typically function as protection for the flower in bud, and often as support for the petals when in bloom., p. 106 The term ''sepalum'' was coined ...

s. The sepals are similar to the bracts but larger. The petals are fused to form a tube with the five petal tips rolled back or spreading, usually with a beard of white hairs inside. The

stamen The stamen (plural ''stamina'' or ''stamens'') is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower. Collectively the stamens form the androecium., p. 10 Morphology and terminology A stamen typically consists of a stalk called the filam ...

s are attached to the tube near its tip and have a short filament and the tip of the

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is thin. The fruit is a

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Taxonomy and naming

The genus ''Leucopogon'' was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his ''

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''. In 2005, following

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, in a paper published in ''

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'',

Christopher John Quinn Christopher is the English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or '' Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), "Christ" or "Anointed", and φέρει ...

and others transferred some species previously known as species of ''Leucopogon'' to other genera, including ''Androstoma'' Hook.f.'', ''Acrotriche'' R.Br.'', ''Acrothamnus'' Quinn and ''Agiortia'' Quinn. These species include the former ''L. colensoi'', ''L. milliganii'', ''L. maccraei'', ''L. montanus''. These, and other changes proposed have been accepted by the

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("APC") but not the change of ''L. melaleucoides'' to ''Acrothamnus melaleucoides''. Further molecular phylogenetic analysis of '' Styphelia'' and related genera by Crayn and others in 2018 have led to further proposed changes, not yet assessed by the APC as at April 2020. These changes include moving 75 species of ''Leucopogon'' to ''Styphelia''. The genus name, ''Leucopogon'' is derived from

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words meaning "white" and "beard", referring to the petal tube.Les Robinson - Field Guide to the Native Plants of Sydney, page 108

Species list

The following is a list of species accepted by the

as at April 2020 and by the

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for species occurring in New Zealand. There is a proposal to move the species marked with an asterisk to the genus '' Styphelia''. *'' Leucopogon acicularis''

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(WA) *'' Leucopogon acuminatus'' R.Br. (NT) * *'' Leucopogon affinis'' R.Br. – lance beard-heath (SA, Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas) *'' Leucopogon allittii''

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(WA) * *'' Leucopogon alternifolius'' R.Br. (WA) *'' Leucopogon altissimus'' Hislop (WA) *''

Leucopogon amplectens ''Leucopogon amplectens'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of and has tube-shaped, white flowers from April to ...

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(WA) *'' Leucopogon amplexicaulis'' – beard heath (

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Leucopogon apiculatus ''Leucopogon apiculatus'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with oblong to elliptic leaves and pink to white tube-shaped flowers. Description ''Leucop ...

'' R.Br. (WA) *'' Leucopogon appressus'' R.Br. (NSW) * *'' Leucopogon assimilis'' R.Br. (WA) *'' Leucopogon atherolepis''

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(WA) *'' Leucopogon attenuatus'' A.Cunn. – grey beard-heath (Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic) * *''

Leucopogon audax ''Leucopogon audax'' is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, open, single-stemmed shrub with hairy branchlets, egg-shaped leaves an ...

'' Hislop (WA) *'' Leucopogon australis'' R.Br. – spiked beard-heath (WA, Vic, Tas) *'' Leucopogon biflorus'' R.Br. (Qld, NSW) * *'' Leucopogon blakei'' Pedley (Qld) * *''

Leucopogon blepharolepis ''Leucopogon blepharolepis'' 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 shrub with sharply-pointed, oblong to lance-shaped leaves and small flowers in rac ...

'' F.Muell. (WA) * *'' Leucopogon borealis'' Hislop & A.R.Chapm. (WA) *'' Leucopogon bossiaea'' (F.Muell.)

(WA) *'' Leucopogon bracteolaris'' Benth. (WA) *'' Leucopogon brevicuspis'' Benth. (WA) * *'' Leucopogon breviflorus'' F.Muell. (WA) * *'' Leucopogon canaliculatus'' Hislop (WA) *'' Leucopogon capitellatus''

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Leucopogon carinatus ''Leucopogon carinatus'' 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 or spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of and has many branches. Its lea ...

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Leucopogon cinereus ''Leucopogon cinereus'' 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, compact shrub that typically grows to a height of and has white flowers from August t ...

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Leucopogon clelandii ''Leucopogon clelandii'', commonly known as Cleland's bearded-heath, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-east of continental Australia. It is weak, open shrub with broadly egg-shaped leaves a ...

'' Cheel (SA, Vic) * *'' Leucopogon cochlearifolius'' Strid (WA) *'' Leucopogon collinus'' ( Labill.) R.Br. – fringed beard-heath (NSW, Vic, Tas) *'' Leucopogon compactus'' Stschegl. (WA) *'' Leucopogon conchifolius'' Strid (WA) * *'' Leucopogon concinnus'' Benth. (WA) * *'' Leucopogon concurvus'' F.Muell. (SA) *'' Leucopogon confertus'' Benth. (NSW) * *'' Leucopogon conostephioides'' DC. (WA) * *'' Leucopogon cordatus'' Sond. (WA) *''

Leucopogon cordifolius ''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-shap ...

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(WA, SA, Vic) * *'' Leucopogon corymbiformis'' Hislop (WA) *''

Leucopogon corynocarpus ''Leucopogon corynocarpus'' is a small plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It was first formally described in 1845 by Otto Wilhelm Sonder in Johann Georg Christian Lehmann's ''Plantae Preissianae''. The speci ...

'' Sond. (WA) * *'' Leucopogon costatus'' (F.Muell.)

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(SA, Vic) *'' Leucopogon crassiflorus'' (F.Muell.) Benth. (WA) * *'' Leucopogon crassifolius'' Sond. (WA) * *''

Leucopogon cryptanthus ''Leucopogon cryptanthus'', commonly known as small-flowered leucopogon, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is slender, diffuse, much-branched shrub that typica ...

'' Benth. (WA) *''

Leucopogon cucullatus ''Leucopogon cucullatus'' is a flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of . The leaves are crowded, egg-shaped to more or less round, a ...

'' R.Br. (WA) *'' Leucopogon cuneifolius'' Stschegl. (WA) * *''

Leucopogon cuspidatus ''Leucopogon cuspidatus'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the central Queensland coast. It is a shrub with densely hairy young branchlets, egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards ...

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Leucopogon cymbiformis ''Leucopogon cymbiformis'' is a flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a bushy or wiry shrub that typically grows to a height of and has more or less glabrous branches. Its leaves ...

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Leucopogon darlingensis ''Leucopogon darlingensis'' 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 shrub with hairy young branchlets, spirally arranged, linear, oblong, narrowly ellipt ...

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Leucopogon deformis ''Leucopogon deformis'' is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemism, endemic to eastern coastal Australia. It is a bushy shrub with narrowly egg-shaped leaves, and white, tube-shaped flowers. Description ''Leuco ...

'' R.Br. (Qld, NSW) * *''

Leucopogon denticulatus ''Leucopogon denticulatus'' 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 shrub with hairy young branchlets, overlapping egg-shaped leaves with small teeth on ...

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(WA) *'' Leucopogon dielsianus'' E.Pritz. (WA) * *''

Leucopogon distans ''Leucopogon distans'' is a flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of . The leaves are heart-shaped to egg-shaped or lance-shaped, lo ...

'' R.Br. (WA) *'' Leucopogon diversifolius'' Hislop (WA) *'' Leucopogon elatior'' Sond. (WA) *'' Leucopogon elegans'' Sond. (WA) **''Leucopogon elegans'' Sond. var. ''elegans'' **''Leucopogon elegans'' subsp. ''psorophyllus'' Hislop (WA) *'' Leucopogon ericoides'' ( Sm.) R.Br. (SA, Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas) * *'' Leucopogon esquamatus'' R.Br. (NSW, Vic, Tas) * *'' Leucopogon exolasius'' (F.Muell.) Benth. (NSW) * *''

Leucopogon extremus ''Leucopogon extremus'' is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of the Jarrah Forest bioregion in the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with "remarkably anomalous morphology. ...

'' Hislop & Puente-Lel. (WA) *'' Leucopogon fasciculatus'' (

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Leucopogon fimbriatus ''Leucopogon fimbriatus'' is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a bushy, erect or sprawling shrub with overlapping egg-shaped or oblong leaves and spikes of tub ...

'' Stschegl. (WA) *'' Leucopogon flavescens'' Sond. (WA) * **''Leucopogon flavescens'' var. ''brevifolius'' Benth. (WA) * **''Leucopogon flavescens'' Sond. var. ''flavescens'' (WA) * *'' Leucopogon fletcheri''

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(NSW, ACT, Vic) * **''Leucopogon fletcheri'' subsp. ''brevisepalus'' J.M.Powell (NSW, ACT, Vic) * **''Leucopogon fletcheri'' Maiden & Betche subsp. ''fletcheri'' * *'' Leucopogon flexifolius'' R.Br. (Qld) * *'' Leucopogon florulentus'' Benth. (WA) *''

Leucopogon foliosus ''Leucopogon foliosus'' is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low, spreading shrub with hairy young branchlets, spirally arranged, erect, linear, narrowly e ...

'' Hislop (WA) *''

Leucopogon fraseri ''Leucopogon fraseri'' is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is native to south-eastern continental Australia and New Zealand, where it is known as ''Styphelia nesophila'', pātōtara, or dwarf mingimingi. It is a p ...

'' A.Cunn. (NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas, NZ) * *'' Leucopogon gelidus''

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(NSW, ACT, Vic) *'' Leucopogon gibbosus'' Stschegl. (WA) *'' Leucopogon gilbertii'' Stschegl. (WA) *''

Leucopogon glabellus ''Leucopogon glabellus'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, glabrous shrub with slender branchlets, heart-shaped to lance-shaped leaves, and cylindrica ...

'' R.Br. (WA) *'' Leucopogon glacialis'' Lindl. (SA, Vic) *'' Leucopogon glaucifolius'' W.Fitzg. (WA) * *'' Leucopogon gnaphalioides'' Stschegl. (WA) *'' Leucopogon gracilis'' R.Br. (WA) *'' Leucopogon gracillimus'' DC. (WA) *'' Leucopogon grammatus'' Hislop (WA) *'' Leucopogon grandiflorus'' Pedley (Qld) * *'' Leucopogon hamulosus'' E.Pritz. (WA) * *''

Leucopogon hirsutus ''Leucopogon hirsutus'' is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to southern continental Australia. It is a low-lying or straggling shrub with elliptic to oblong leaves and inconspicuous, white, bell-shaped fl ...

'' Sond. (WA, SA) *'' Leucopogon hispidus'' E.Pritz. (WA) * *'' Leucopogon imbricatus'' R.Br. (Qld) * *'' Leucopogon incisus'' Hislop (WA) *'' Leucopogon inflexus'' Hislop (WA) *'' Leucopogon infuscatus'' Strid (WA) *'' Leucopogon insularis'' A.Cunn. ex DC. (WA) * *''

Leucopogon interruptus ''Leucopogon interruptus'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a spreading, glabrous shrub with oval to oblong leaves crowded at the ends of branches, and many sm ...

'' R.Br. (WA) *''

Leucopogon interstans ''Leucopogon interstans'' 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 shrub with brownish hairs on its young branchlets, erect, narrowly elliptic or narrowly ...

'' Hislop (WA) *'' Leucopogon juniperinus'' R.Br. (Qld, NSW, Vic) * *''

Leucopogon lasiophyllus ''Leucopogon lasiophyllus'' 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 shrub with linear to lance-shaped leaves and small, dense spikes of tube-shaped whit ...

'' Stschegl. (WA) *''

Leucopogon lasiostachyus ''Leucopogon lasiostachyus'' 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 shrub with egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves and dense, cylindrical spikes of tube- ...

'' Stschegl. (WA) *''

Leucopogon lavarackii ''Leucopogon lavarackii'' is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to Cape York Peninsula in far northern Queensland. It is a much-branched shrub with softly-hairy branchlets, oblong, elliptic or lance-shaped ...

'' Pedley (Qld) * *'' Leucopogon leptanthus'' Benth. (WA) * *''

Leucopogon leptospermoides ''Leucopogon leptospermoides'' is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect, bushy shrub with elliptic to lance-shaped or oblong leaves, and white, tube-shaped flowers usually ...

'' R.Br. (Qld, NSW) * *'' Leucopogon lloydiorum'' Strid (WA) *'' Leucopogon malayanus''

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(Qld, Cambodia, Malaya, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam) * **''Leucopogon malayanus'' subsp. ''malayanus'' * **''Leucopogon malayanus'' subsp. ''novoguineensis'' * *''

Leucopogon margarodes ''Leucopogon margarodes'' is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to near-coastal areas of eastern Australia. It is an erect, spreading shrub with egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, an ...

'' R.Br. (Qld, NSW) * *'' Leucopogon marginatus'' W.Fitzg. (WA) * *'' Leucopogon maritimus'' Hislop (WA) *'' Leucopogon melaleucoides'' A.Cunn. ex DC. (Qld, NSW) *'' Leucopogon microcarpus'' Hislop (WA) *''

Leucopogon microphyllus ''Leucopogon microphyllus'' is a small Australian plant in the family Ericaceae native to eastern Australia. Two varieties are recognised, distinguished principally by leaf hairiness and geographical distribution. ''Leucopogon microphyllus'' var ...

'' ( Cav.) R.Br. (Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic) **''Leucopogon microphyllus'' (Cav.) R.Br. var. ''microphyllus'' **''Leucopogon microphyllus'' var. ''pilibundus'' (A.Cunn. ex DC.) Benth. *''

Leucopogon mitchellii ''Leucopogon mitchellii'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae family and is endemic to Queensland. It is a shrub with sharply-pointed, narrowly oblong leaves and white, tube-shaped flowers. Description ''Leucopogon mitche ...

'' Benth. (Qld) * *'' Leucopogon mollis'' E.Pritz. (WA) *'' Leucopogon multiflorus'' R.Br. (WA) * *'' Leucopogon muticus'' R.Br. (Qld, NSW) * *'' Leucopogon nanum'' M.I.Dawson &

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(NZ) * *'' Leucopogon navicularis'' Hislop (WA) *'' Leucopogon neoanglicus'' F.Muell. ex Benth. (Qld, NSW) * *''

Leucopogon neurophyllus ''Leucopogon neurophyllus'', commonly known as veined beard-heath, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to Victoria in Australia. It is a dense shrub with many branches, erect, narrowly elliptic leaves, a ...

'' F.Muell. (Vic) *'' Leucopogon newbeyi'' Hislop (WA) *''

Leucopogon nitidus ''Leucopogon nitidus'' is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to a small area in Western Australia. It is an erect, open shrub with hairy young branchlets, linear or very narrowly elliptic leaves and erect, ...

'' Hislop (WA) *'' Leucopogon nutans'' E.Pritz. (WA) * *''

Leucopogon obovatus ''Leucopogon obovatus'' is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with hairy young branchlets, variably-shaped, simple leaves, and erect clusters of ...

'' ( Labill.) R.Br. (WA) **''Leucopogon obovatus'' (Labill.) R.Br. subsp. ''obovatus '' **''Leucopogon obovatus'' subsp. ''revolutus'' (R.Br.) Hislop *'' Leucopogon obtectus'' Benth. (WA) * *'' Leucopogon obtusatus'' Sond. (WA) *''

Leucopogon oldfieldii ''Leucopogon oldfieldii'' 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 or spreading shrub with lance-shaped leaves and dense spikes of white or pink, tube-sh ...

'' Benth. (WA) *'' Leucopogon oliganthus'' E.Pritz. (WA) *'' Leucopogon opponens'' (F.Muell.) Benth. (WA) *'' Leucopogon oppositifolius'' Sond. (WA) *'' Leucopogon ovalifolius'' Sond. (WA) * *''

Leucopogon oxycedrus ''Leucopogon'' is a genus of about 150-160 species of shrubs or small trees in the family Ericaceae, in the section of that family formerly treated as the separate family Epacridaceae. They are native to Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, th ...

'' Sond. (WA) * *'' Leucopogon ozothamnoides'' Benth. (WA) *'' Leucopogon parviflorus'' ( Andrews) Lindl. (WA, SA, Qld, NSW, LHI, Vic, Tas, NZ) *''

Leucopogon pendulus ''Leucopogon pendulus'' is a shrub in the family Ericaceae. It is native to Western Australia. Description ''Leucopogon pendulus'' is an erect shrub which grows to heights of from 0.1 m to 1.5 m. The white flowers may be seen from March to Oc ...

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Leucopogon penicillatus ''Leucopogon'' is a genus of about 150-160 species of shrubs or small trees in the family Ericaceae, in the section of that family formerly treated as the separate family Epacridaceae. They are native to Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, th ...

'' Stschegl. (WA) *'' Leucopogon phyllostachys'' Benth. (WA) *'' Leucopogon pilifer'' N.A.Wakef. (NSW, Vic, Tas) *'' Leucopogon pimeleoides'' A.Cunn. ex DC. (Qld, NSW) *'' Leucopogon planifolius'' Sond. (WA) * *'' Leucopogon plumuliflorus'' (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex Benth. (WA) *''

Leucopogon pogonocalyx ''Leucopogon'' is a genus of about 150-160 species of shrubs or small trees in the family Ericaceae, in the section of that family formerly treated as the separate family Epacridaceae. They are native to Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, the ...

'' Benth. (WA) * *'' Leucopogon polymorphus'' Sond. (WA) *'' Leucopogon polystachyus'' R.Br. (WA) *'' Leucopogon prolatus'' Hislop (WA) *'' Leucopogon propinquus'' R.Br. (WA) * *''

Leucopogon psammophilus ''Leucopogon'' is a genus of about 150-160 species of shrubs or small trees in the family Ericaceae, in the section of that family formerly treated as the separate family Epacridaceae. They are native to Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, th ...

'' E.Pritz. (WA) *'' Leucopogon psilopus'' Stschegl. (WA) * *''

Leucopogon pubescens ''Leucopogon'' is a genus of about 150-160 species of shrubs or small trees in the family Ericaceae, in the section of that family formerly treated as the separate family Epacridaceae. They are native to Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, th ...

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(WA) * *'' Leucopogon pulchellus'' Sond. (WA) *'' Leucopogon racemulosus'' DC. (WA) * *''

Leucopogon recurvisepalus ''Leucopogon'' is a genus of about 150-160 species of shrubs or small trees in the family Ericaceae, in the section of that family formerly treated as the separate family Epacridaceae. They are native to Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, th ...

'' C.T.White (Qld, NSW) * *'' Leucopogon reflexus'' R.Br. (WA) *'' Leucopogon remotus'' Hislop (WA) *''

Leucopogon rigidus ''Leucopogon'' is a genus of about 150-160 species of shrubs or small trees in the family Ericaceae, in the section of that family formerly treated as the separate family Epacridaceae. They are native to Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, th ...

'' A.Cunn. ex DC. (WA) * *'' Leucopogon riparius'' N.A.Wakef. (Vic) * *'' Leucopogon rodwayi''

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Leucopogon rotundifolius ''Leucopogon'' is a genus of about 150-160 species of shrubs or small trees in the family Ericaceae, in the section of that family formerly treated as the separate family Epacridaceae. They are native to Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, th ...

'' R.Br. (WA) * *'' Leucopogon rubricaulis'' R.Br. (WA) *'' Leucopogon rufus'' Lindl. (SA, NSW, Vic) * *''

Leucopogon rugulosus ''Leucopogon'' is a genus of about 150-160 species of shrubs or small trees in the family Ericaceae, in the section of that family formerly treated as the separate family Epacridaceae. They are native to Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, th ...

'' Hislop (WA) *'' Leucopogon rupicola'' C.T.White (Qld) * *'' Leucopogon ruscifolius'' R.Br. (Qld) * *'' Leucopogon setiger'' R.Br. (NSW) * *'' Leucopogon simulans'' Hislop (WA) *''

Leucopogon sonderensis ''Leucopogon'' is a genus of about 150-160 species of shrubs or small trees in the family Ericaceae, in the section of that family formerly treated as the separate family Epacridaceae. They are native to Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, th ...

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Leucopogon spectabilis ''Leucopogon'' is a genus of about 150-160 species of shrubs or small trees in the family Ericaceae, in the section of that family formerly treated as the separate family Epacridaceae. They are native to Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, th ...

'' Hislop & A.R.Chapm. (WA) *'' Leucopogon sprengelioides'' Sond. (WA) *'' Leucopogon squarrosus'' Benth. (WA) **''Leucopogon squarrosus'' Benth. subsp. ''squarrosus'' (WA) **''Leucopogon squarrosus'' subsp. ''trigynus'' Hislop (WA) *''

Leucopogon stenophyllus ''Leucopogon'' is a genus of about 150-160 species of shrubs or small trees in the family Ericaceae, in the section of that family formerly treated as the separate family Epacridaceae. They are native to Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, th ...

'' Hislop (WA) *'' Leucopogon stokesii'' Hislop (WA) *''

Leucopogon striatus ''Leucopogon'' is a genus of about 150-160 species of shrubs or small trees in the family Ericaceae, in the section of that family formerly treated as the separate family Epacridaceae. They are native to Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, th ...

'' R.Br. (WA) *'' Leucopogon strictus'' Benth. (WA) * *'' Leucopogon strongylophyllus'' F.Muell. (WA) * *'' Leucopogon subsejunctus'' Hislop (WA) *'' Leucopogon tamariscinus'' R.Br. (WA) *''

Leucopogon tamminensis ''Leucopogon tamminensis'' is a shrub in the family Ericaceae found in Western Australia. There are two varieties: *''Leucopogon tamminensis'' var. ''australis'' E.Pritz *''Leucopogon tamminensis'' E.Pritz var. ''tamminensis'' Description ...

'' E.Pritz. (WA) * **''Leucopogon tamminensis'' var. ''australis'' E.Pritz. (WA) * **''Leucopogon tamminensis'' E.Pritz. var. ''tamminensis'' (WA) * *'' Leucopogon tenuicaulis'' J.M.Powell ex Hislop (WA) *'' Leucopogon tenuis'' DC. (WA) *''

Leucopogon tetragonus ''Leucopogon'' is a genus of about 150-160 species of shrubs or small trees in the family Ericaceae, in the section of that family formerly treated as the separate family Epacridaceae. They are native to Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, th ...

'' Sond. (WA) *'' Leucopogon thymifolius'' Lindl. ex Benth. (WA) *'' Leucopogon trichostylus'' J.M.Powell (Qld, NSW * *''

Leucopogon unilateralis ''Leucopogon'' is a genus of about 150-160 species of shrubs or small trees in the family Ericaceae, in the section of that family formerly treated as the separate family Epacridaceae. They are native to Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, th ...

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Leucopogon validus ''Leucopogon'' is a genus of about 150-160 species of shrubs or small trees in the family Ericaceae, in the section of that family formerly treated as the separate family Epacridaceae. They are native to Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, th ...

'' Hislop & A.R.Chapm. (WA) *'' Leucopogon verticillatus'' R.Br. (WA) *''

Leucopogon virgatus ''Leucopogon'' is a genus of about 150-160 species of shrubs or small trees in the family Ericaceae, in the section of that family formerly treated as the separate family Epacridaceae. They are native to Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, th ...

'' (Labill.) R.Br. (SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas) **''Leucopogon virgatus'' var. ''brevifolius'' Benth. (SA, Vic, Tas) **''Leucopogon virgatus'' (Labill.) R.Br. var. ''virgatus'' (SA, ACT, Vic, Tas) *'' Leucopogon wheelerae'' Hislop (WA) *''

Leucopogon woodsii ''Leucopogon'' is a genus of about 150-160 species of shrubs or small trees in the family Ericaceae, in the section of that family formerly treated as the separate family Epacridaceae. They are native to Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, th ...

'' F.Muell. (WA, SA, Vic) * *'' Leucopogon yorkensis'' Pedley (Qld) *

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q1936785 Ericaceae genera