''Leucopogon imbricatus'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to south-east Queensland. It is an erect shrub with glabrous branches, crowded, often overlapping, egg-shaped leaves, and white, bell-shaped flowers that are bearded inside.

Description

''Leucopogon imbricatus'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of about and has widely-spreading, glabrous branches. Its leaves are sessile, egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base and less than long. The leaves are crowded, often overlapping, and have a fine sharp point on the rounded tip. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils on a short

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with small

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s and broad bracteoles less than half as long as the sepals. The sepals are about long and the petals white, forming a bell-shaped tube about as long as the sepals, with lobes about as long as the petal tube.

Taxonomy

''Leucopogon imbricatus'' was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his '' Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen''. The

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(''imbricatus'') means " imbricate".

Distribution

This leucopogon grows in south-east Queensland.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q17241563 imbricatus Ericales of Australia Flora of Queensland Plants described in 1810 Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)