''Leucopogon biflorus'' is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect to spreading shrub with hairy branchlets, oblong leaves and small white flowers.

Description

''Leucopogon biflorus'' is an erect to spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of and has bristly hairs on the branchlets. The leaves are glabrous, oblong, more or less flat, long, wide and sessile. The flowers are arranged singly or in pairs in leaf axils on a

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long with bracteoles long. The petals form a tube long with lobes long and hairy near the ends. Flowering occurs from July to October and is followed by glabrous, elliptic

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s long.

Taxonomy

''Leucopogon biflorus'' was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his '' Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae''. The

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(''biflorus'') means "two-flowered".

Distribution and habitat

''Leucopogon biflorus'' grows in woodland, sometimes on rocky outcrops and occurs in south-east Queensland and as far south as

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in New South Wales.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q17245039 biflorus Ericales of Australia Flora of New South Wales Flora of Queensland Plants described in 1810 Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)