Leucopogon borealis
Leucopogon borealis is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of the west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with hairy young branchlets, linear leaves and white flowers in nine to twenty upper leaf axils. Description
Leucopogon borealis is a shrub that typically grows up to about  high and wide, its young branchlets chestnut-brown and hairy. The leaves are spirally arranged, linear or narrowly elliptic,  long and  wide on a hairy petiole  long. The upper surface of the leaves is shiny and the lower surface densely hairy. The flowers are arranged singly in nine to twenty upper leaf axils  from the ends of branchlets, with egg-shaped bracts  long and similar slightly longer bracteoles. The sepals are egg-shaped,  long with a purplish tinge. The petals are white and joined at the base to form a bell-shaped tube  long and shorter than the sepals, the lobes white and  long. Flowering mainly occurs from July to October and the fruit is a glabrous drupe  long. Taxonomy and naming
Leucopogon borealis was first formally described in 2007 by Michael Clyde Hislop and Alex R. Chapman in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected by Alex George north of Geraldton in 1993. The specific epithet (borealis) means "northern", referring to the distribution of this leucopogon, compared to others in the genus. Distribution and habitat
This leucopogon usually grows in low, dense heath on the Moresby Range between Geraldton and Northampton in the Geraldton Sandplains bioregion in the west of Western Australia. Conservation status
Leucopogon borealis is classified as "Priority Two" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, meaning that it is poorly known and from only one or a few locations. References

borealis
Ericales of Australia
Flora of Western Australia
Plants described in 2007