Leucopogon gelidus

Leucopogon gelidus is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is native to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a slender, compact shrub with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves, and spikes of drooping, tube-shaped white flowers.

Description
Leucopogon gelidus is a slender, compact shrub that typically grows to a height of up to about 2 m and has sparsely softly-hairy branchlets. Its leaves are more or less erect, egg-shaped to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 10–25 mm long, 2–6.5 mm wide and glabrous. The flowers droop and are arranged in spikes of 3 to 8, 7–15 mm long with egg-shaped bracteoles 1.4–2.3 mm long at the base. The sepals are egg-shaped, 2.5–3.0 mm long, the petals forming a tube 2.1–4.8 mm long and softly-hairy inside, the petal lobes 1.3–2.4 mm long. Flowering mainly occurs from September to February and the fruit is a glabrous, pink to red, oval to spherical drupe 3.5–4.0 mm long.

Taxonomy
Leucopogon gelidus was first formally described in 1956 by Norman Arthur Wakefield in The Victorian Naturalist. The specific epithet (gelidus) means "very cold".

Distribution and habitat
This leucopogon grows in subalpine woodland on scree slopes and between rocks at higher altitudes south from Mount Gingera in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory to Lake Mountain in eastern Victoria.