Leucopogon strongylophyllus
# Leucopogon strongylophyllus

Leucopogon strongylophyllus 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 crowded egg-shaped or round leaves and white, tube-shaped flower arranged singly or in pairs in leaf axils.

## Description

Leucopogon strongylophyllus is an erect shrub, its young branchlets sometimes softly-hairy. Its leaves are crowded, sometimes erect, egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, or round, on a distinct petiiole. The leaves are prominently striated and sometimes have a minute, rigid point on the tip. The flowers are arranged singly or in pairs in leaf axils on a down-curved peduncle with minute bracts and broad bracteoles somewhat less than half as long as the sepals. The sepals are about 2 mm (0.079 in) long, and the petals white, about 4 mm (0.16 in) long, and joined at the base to form a tube with lobes longer than the petal tube.

## Taxonomy and naming

Leucopogon strongylophyllus was first formally described in 1864 by Ferdinand von Mueller in his Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected by James Drummond near the Murchison River. The specific epithet (strongylophyllus) means "rounded leaves".

## Distribution

This leucopogon occurs in the Geraldton Sandplains bioregion of south-western Western Australia.

## Conservation status

Leucopogon strongylophyllus is listed as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.

