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Leucopogon obovatus

(Leucopogon obovatus)

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Description

Leucopogon obovatus is a species of plant family Ericaceae, occurring at floodplains and hills at southern coastal areas of Southwest Australia. The habit is an erect shrub between 0.3 and 1.5 metres in height, occasionally reaching 2 metres. They occur on white and grey sands, rocky loam, and at laterite or granite beneath gravelly soils. White flowers appear in a period beginning in March or May that extends until November. The epacrid was first collected and described by Jacques Labillardière, and revised in 1810 by Robert Brown to the current alignment to the genus Leucopogon. They attract moyadong, a parrot subspecies Platycercus icterotis icterotis, which eat their fruit.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum:
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Ericales
Family:Ericaceae
Genus:Leucopogon
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