Leucopogon elatior

Leucopogon elatior is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a slender, erect or straggly shrub with broadly egg-shaped leaves, and white, tube-shaped flowers.

Description
Leucopogon elatior is a slender, erect or straggly shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.2–1 m. Its leaves are broadly egg-shaped to lance-shaped, 2–6 mm long with a more or less heart-shaped base. The flowers are arranged in cylindrical spike of many flowers with leaf-like bracts and small bracteoles. The sepals are about 2 mm long, the petals white and joined at the base to form a broadly bell-shaped tube about 4 mm long, the lobes longer than the petal tube. Flowering occurs from January to May, or July to November.

Taxonomy and naming
Leucopogon elatior as was first formally described in 1845 by Otto Wilhelm Sonder in Johann Georg Christian Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae. The specific epithet (elatior) means "taller".

Distribution and habitat
This leucopogon grows on sandplains, hillslopes and winter-wet places in the south-west of Western Australia.

Conservation status
Leucopogon elatior is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.