Leucopogon pubescens
# Leucopogon pubescens

Leucopogon pubescens is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. The species was first formally described in 1920 by Spencer Le Marchant Moore in the Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany from specimens collected by Frederick Stoward near Ongerup. The specific epithet (pubescens) means "covered with soft, fine hairs". Leucopogon pubescens is found in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia and is listed (as Styphelia pubescens) as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.

