Leucopogon lasiostachyus 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 shrub with egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves and dense, cylindrical spikes of tube-shaped white flowers on the ends of branches and in leaf axils.
Leucopogon lasiostachyus is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of and has wand-like branches and foliage covered with soft hairs. The leaves are egg-shaped to lance-shaped, usually long and prominently ribbed on the lower surface. The flowers are arranged in dense, cylindrical spikes long on the ends of branches or in upper leaf axils with lance-shaped or linear bracts and egg-shaped bracteoles more than half as long as long as the sepals. The sepals and bracts are shaggy-hairy, the sepals about long and the petals white, forming a tube much shorter than the sepals, the lobes about twice as long as the petal tube.[1]
Leucopogon lasiostachyus was first formally described in 1859 by Sergei Sergeyevich Sheglejev in the Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou from specimens collected by James Drummond.[2] [3] The specific epithet (lasiostachyus) means "shaggy- or woolly-hairy flower spike".[4]
This leucopogon grows in rocky soils on sandplains, ridge tops and hills in the Esperance Plains and Jarrah Forest bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
Leucopogon lasiostachyus is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.