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Leucopogon cryptanthus, commonly known as small-flowered leucopogon, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is slender, diffuse, much-branched shrub that typically grows to a height of about 15 cm (5.9 in). Its leaves are erect and linear, 2–6.5 mm (0.079–0.256 in) long, rigid and sharply pointed. The few flowers are small and inconspicuous, arranged singly, in short spikes or in clusters at the ends of branches in cymes with leaf-like bracts and bracteoles at the base. The sepals are less than 2 mm (0.079 in) long, the petals joined at the base, forming a tube shorter than the sepals, the petal lobes about as long as the petal tube.
The species was first formally described in 1868 by George Bentham in Flora Australiensis from specimens collected by James Drummond in the Swan River Colony.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leucopogon cryptanthus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
