''Leptocarpus coangustatus'' is a species of plant in the

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(rush) family, endemic to

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. It was first described by

Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (14 February 1776 – 16 March 1858) was a prolific Germany, German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Carl Li ...

in 1846, from plants collected by J.A.L. Preiss (in the Darling Ranges) and James Drummond (on the Swan River). In 1998

Barbara Briggs Barbara Gillian Briggs (born 1934) is one of the foremost Australian botanists. The '' IK'' lists 205 names of plants which have been published or co-published by her. She was one of the botanists in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, of th1998 APG ...

and

Lawrie Johnson Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson (26 June 1925 – 1 August 1997) known as Lawrie Johnson, was an Australian taxonomic botanist. He worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, for the whole of his professional career, as a botanist (1948–1 ...

transferred the species to the genus, '' Meeboldina'', to give the species name, ''Meeboldina coangustata''. However in 2014, the genus '' Leptocarpus'' was expanded to include '' Meeboldina'' and by 2021 the later name was no longer accepted.

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''Leptocarpus coangustata'': images & occurrence data
from

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