Leucopogon pendulus
Leucopogon pendulus is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, straggling shrub with oblong leaves and white, tube-shaped flowers that are bearded inside.

Description
Leucopogon pendulus is a bushy, erect, heath-like shrub that typically grows to a height of  and has many glabrous or softly-hairy branches. Its leaves are mostly erect, oblong to linear,  or rarely up to  long and sometimes with a short, hard point on the tip. The flowers are pendulous and arranged singly or in pairs in leaf axils on a peduncle  long with tiny bracts, and bracteoles less than half as long as the sepals at the base. The sepals are about  long, the petals white and joined at the base, forming a tube about as long as the sepals, with lobes twice as long as the petal tube and bearded inside. Flowering occurs from March to October and the fruit is a drupe 2 or 3 times as long as the sepals.

Taxonomy
Leucopogon pendulus was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.  The specific epithet, pendulus means "hanging down" or "drooping", referring to the flowers and fruit.

Distribution
This leucopogon is found in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Conservation status
Leucopogon pendulus is listed (as Styphelia pendula) as "not threatened", by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.

References

pendulus
Ericales of Australia
Eudicots of Western Australia
Plants described in 1810
Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)