Cryptandra leucopogon

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|genus = Cryptandra

|species = leucopogon

|authority = Meisn. ex Reissek{{cite web |title=Cryptandra leucopogon |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/87660|publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=31 December 2022}}

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Cryptandra leucopogon is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|5–20|cm}} and has white to cream-coloured flowers from July to October.{{FloraBase|id=4800|name=Cryptandra leucopogon}} It was first formally described in 1848 by Siegfried Reissek in Plantae Preissianae from an unpublished description by Carl Meissner.{{cite web|title=Cryptandra leucopogon|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/507897|publisher=APNI|accessdate=31 December 2022}}{{cite book |last1=Reissek |first1=Siegfried |last2=Lehmann |first2=Johann G.C. |title=Plantae Preissianae |volume=2 |date=1848 |publisher=Sumptibus Meissneri |location=Hamburg |pages=287–288 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/9228#page/288/mode/1up |access-date=31 December 2022}} The specific epithet (leucopogon) means "white beard".{{cite book |last1=Sharr |first1=Francis Aubi |last2=George |first2=Alex |title=Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings |date=2019 |publisher=Four Gables Press |location=Kardinya, WA |isbn=9780958034180 |page=239 |edition=3rd}}

This cryptandra grows on undulating plains in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia.