Isopogon cuneatus

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Phylogeny & links to associated information:

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Plant  information

Common name:               Coneflower

Conservation status:   . . .

Etymology:   

• Isopogon:  isos – equal,  pogon – beard alluding to the fringed flowers

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Flowers:                 

• The flowers are arranged in conspicuous, flattened-spherical, sessile heads on the ends of branchlets, 40–55 mm long in diameter 

• With broadly egg-shaped involucral bracts at the base

• The flowers are about 25 mm long, pale to purplish pink and glabrous

• Flowering occurs from July to October 

Fruit:                         

• The fruit is a hairy oval nut, fused with others in a hemispherical cone up to 35 mm in diameter

Leaves:         

•  The leaves are oblong to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base

• 40–100 mm long and 10–30 mm wide. 

Stem & branches: 

•  A shrub that typically grows to a height of 1.5–2.5 m and has hairy pale to reddish brown branchlets

Roots:         

Habit:        

• It is a shrub with oblong to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and flattened-spherical heads of glabrous pale to purplish pink flowers.

Habitat:   

• Grows in heath, shrubland and low woodland on stony hills and swampy flats 

Distribution:                  

• Endemic to the south-west of Western Australia.

• Between Albany, the Stirling Range and Cheyne Bay in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Warren biogeographic regions

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy

  • Isopogon cuneatus was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopogon_cuneatus (2023)