Leucopogon recurvisepalus
# Leucopogon recurvisepalus

Leucopogon recurvisepalus 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 linear leaves and erect, white, tube-shaped flowers usually arranged singly or in pairs in leaf axils.

## Description

Leucopogon recurvisepalus is an erect to spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 1.3 m (4 ft 3 in), its branchlets covered with more or less woolly hairs. Its leaves are linear-oblong, 5.7–8.5 mm (0.22–0.33 in) long and 1.3–1.8 mm (0.051–0.071 in) wide on a petiole 0.3–0.4 mm (0.012–0.016 in) long. The edges of the leaves are rolled down and there are tiny teeth on the edges. The flowers are borne singly or in pairs in leaf axils on a peduncle about 1 mm (0.039 in) long with bracteoles 1.2–1.8 mm (0.047–0.071 in) long. The sepals are 2.0–3.0 mm (0.079–0.118 in) long and curved backwards, the petals white and joined at the base, forming a tube 1.4–2.1 mm (0.055–0.083 in) long, the lobes 1.7–3.2 mm (0.067–0.126 in) long and bearded.

This leucopogon is similar to L. ericoides, but is distinguished from it by its hairy branchlets, curved sepals and longer petals.

## Taxonomy

Leucopogon recurvisepalus was first formally described in 1944 by C.T. White in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland from specimens collected by Charles Edward Hubbard near Plunkett in 1930.

## Distribution

Leucopogon recurvisepalus grows in forest and heath in sandy soil from south-eastern Queensland to the Grafton area in New South Wales.

