Leucopogon microphyllus var. pilibundus
(A.Cunn. ex DC.) Benth. Hairy Beard-heathShrub to c. 1 m. high; branchlets hispid. Leaves not widely spreading, narrowly elliptic to c. oblong, 2–6 mm long, c. 1 mm wide, convex, concolorous, upper surface and margins hispid with scattered hairs of different lengths, lower surface papillose between nerves, otherwise glabrous or sparsely hispid; apex bluntish, slightly recurved. Flowers white, crowded, (1–)2–5 in spikes 3-7 mm long in upper axils; bracteoles ovate, 1–1.5 mm long, acute, minutely hispid; sepals narrowly ovate, 2.2–3 mm long, acute, dark-tipped, minutely hispid; corolla c. 2–3 mm long, lobes 1.2–2 times longer than tube, acute, spreading or recurved, densely bearded within; anthers with short sterile tips; ovary 2–3-locular, glabrous, style 0.3–0.5 mm long. Fruit ovoid, 1.5–2.2. mm long. Flowers Aug.–Oct.
CVU, NIS, EGL, EGU, HNF, MonT, VAlp. Occasional in elevated, dryish and often rocky sites supporting open-forest and woodland communities. Disjunctly distributed, from the Lerderderg Gorge area, and north and east from near Buchan.
A variant from rocky bluffs north of Combienbar approaches var. microphyllus (of New South Wales and Queensland) in having almost glabrous leaves, bracteoles and sepals.
Powell, J.M.; Walsh, N.G.; Brown, E.A. (1996). Leucopogon. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 494–509. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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