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Isopogon formosus subsp. dasylepis (Meisn.) Foreman

Reference
Fl.Australia 16:479 (1995)
Conservation Code
Priority Three
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Low, bushy or slender, upright, non-lignotuberous shrub, 0.2-2 m high. Fl. pink-purple/red, Jun to Dec. Sand, sandy clay, gravelly sandy soils over laterite. Often swampy areas.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 9 January 1997
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.5-1.5 m high; branchlets glabrous. Leaves alternate, 25-70 mm long, glabrous; lamina terete or flat, once divided or twice or more divided, pinnately divided or tripartitely divided, entire or divided to the midrib, with (2-)7-12(-48) points or lobes; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 15-30 mm. Inflorescences not viscid, red or pink. Perianth 18-26 mm long, hairy, the limb apex hairy at the apex only; pistil 20-27 mm long; pollen presenter not fusiform, hairy, 4-5 mm long, the brush 1.5-2 mm long. Cone with deciduous scales, 12-20 mm long. Flowers in June, July, August, September, October, November or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Jarrah Forest (JF) or Warren (WAR) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Three (P3).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 19 January 2024

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Augusta Margaret River, Busselton, Capel, Donnybrook-Balingup, Nannup.