Leucopogon australis

Leucopogon australis, commonly known as spiked beard-heath, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to southern Australia. It is an erect, aromatic shrub with narrowly egg-shaped to narrowly elliptic leaves, and white flowers arranged in spikes near the ends of branchlets.

Description
Leucopogon australis is an erect, aromatic shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–2 m and has glabrous branchlets. The leaves are more or less glabrous, narrowly egg-shaped to narrowly elliptic, 10–85 mm long and 2–10 mm wide on a petiole 0.6–1.5 mm long. The flowers are arranged in groups of 8 to 28 and 8–34 mm long on the ends of branchlets, or in upper leaf axils, with egg-shaped bracts 0.7–1 mm long and similar bracteoles. The sepals are egg-shaped, 1.2–1.9 mm long and yellowish. The petals are joined at the base to form a bell-shaped tube about as long as the sepals, the lobes white and 2.3–2.7 mm long and densely bearded on the inside. Flowering occurs from September to November and the fruit is a flattened spherical drupe 1.8–2.2 mm long.

Taxonomy and naming
Leucopogon australis was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae. The specific epithet (australis) means "southern".

Distribution and habitat
This leucopogon grows in the understorey of forest in wetter places within 100 km of the coast of Western Australia between Gingin, Augusta and Albany, Peterborough and Yarram in Victoria, and northern Tasmania, where it is rare.