Leucopogon collinus

Leucopogon collinus, commonly known as fringed beard-heath, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a slender, erect or spreading shrub with narrowly lance-shaped leaves, and white, tube-shaped, bearded flowers.

Description
Leucopogon collinus is a slender, erect or spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 60 cm, its branchlets with minute, bristly hairs. Its leaves are glabrous, narrowly lance-shaped to oblong, 3–13.4 mm long and 0.9–2.7 mm wide on a petiole 0.3–1 mm long. The flowers are crowded on the ends of branches or in upper leaf axils forming spikes 5–13 mm long with egg-shaped bracteoles 0.7–1.7 mm long. The sepals are egg-shaped, 1.3–2 mm long, the petals white and joined at the base to form a tube 0.8–1.4 mm long, the lobes 1.3–1.6 mm long and densely bearded on the inside. Flowering occurs from July to October and is followed by an elliptic drupe about 2.5 mm long.

Taxonomy and naming
Fringed beard-heath was first formally described in 1810 by Jacques Labillardière, who gave it the name Styphelia collina in his Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen. In the same year, Robert Brown changed the name to Leucopogon collinus in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen. The specific epithet (collinus) means "living on hills".

Distribution and habitat
Leucopogon collinus grows in woodland and coastal heath and is found south from Eden in New South Wales, in coastal areas east of Orbost and other scattered locations further westwards in inland Victoria, and is common and widespread in Tasmania.