Isopogon inconspicuus explained

Isopogon inconspicuus is a plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a small shrub with pinnate leaves with cylindrical leaflets, and pink to purple flowers covered with grey hairs.

Description

Isopogon inconspicuus is a shrub that typically grows to a height of, its branchlets covered with woolly, brownish to greyish hairs. The leaves are crowded, long and pinnate with cylindrical leaflets on a petiole up to long. The flowers are arranged in spherical, sessile heads about long, crowded near the ends of branchlets, each head with usually drooping pink to purple flowers about long, and covered with grey hairs. Flowering occurs from August to November and the fruit is a hairy nut up to long, fused in a oval to spherical head in diameter.[1]

Taxonomy and naming

This isopogon was first formally described in 1855 by Carl Meissner in Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany and given the name Petrophile inconspicua from specimens collected by James Drummond.[2] [3] In 1995, Donald Bruce Foreman changed the name to Isopogon inconspicuus in Flora of Australia.[4]

Distribution and habitat

Isopogon inconspicuus grows in heath and shrubland on sandplains between Dandaragan and Eneabba.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Foreman . David B. . Isopogon inconspicuus . Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra . 18 November 2020.
  2. Web site: Petrophile inconspicua. APNI. 18 November 2020.
  3. Meissner . Carl . New Proteaceae of Australia . Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Gardens Miscellany . 1855 . 7 . 68 . 18 November 2020.
  4. Web site: Isopogon inconspicuus. APNI. 18 November 2020.