Isopogon axillaris explained

Isopogon axillaris is a species of plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with thick, linear to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base and oval heads of pink or purple flowers.

Description

Isopogon axillaris is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has glabrous, brown branchlets. The leaves are linear to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long, wide and more or less sessile. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils in sessile, oval heads up to long with a few overlapping elliptic involucral bracts at the base. The flowers are long and pale pink to purplish pink. Flowering occurs from July to October and the fruit is a hairy, spherical nut, fused with others in an oval head about in diameter.[1]

Taxonomy

Isopogon axillaris was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.[2] [3]

Distribution and habitat

This isopogon grows in wet or swampy areas from near Karridale to Albany in the south-west of Western Australia.

Conservation status

Isopogon axillaris is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Foreman . David B. . Isopogon axillaris . Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra . 21 November 2020.
  2. Web site: Isopogon axillaris. APNI. 21 November 2020.
  3. Brown . Robert . On the Proteaceae of Jussieu. . Transactions of the Linnean Society of London . 1810 . 10 . 1 . 74 . 21 November 2020.