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Isopogon alcicornis Diels
Elkhorn Coneflower

Reference
Bot.Jahrb.Syst. 35:134 (1904)
Conservation Code
Priority Three
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Low, lignotuberous shrub, 0.3-0.5 m high, up to 0.6 m wide. Fl. yellow/white/pink, Oct to Dec or Feb. Sandy soils, skeletal loam on granite. Sandhills, salt lakes, sandplains.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 31 October 2002
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.5-1 m high; branchlets hairy, with curled hairs. Leaves alternate, 100-400 mm long, hairy or glabrous; lamina flat, once divided or twice or more divided, tripartitely divided, deeply divided, with (2-)3(-5) points or lobes; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 90-200 mm. Inflorescences not viscid, white or pink. Perianth 15-20 mm long, hairy, the limb apex hairy all over; pistil 15-22 mm long; pollen presenter fusiform, glabrous, 2-3.5 mm long. Cone with deciduous scales, 23-25 mm long. Flowers in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Three (P3).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Mallee, Recherche.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Esperance.