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Isopogon teretifolius R.Br.
Nodding Coneflower

Reference
Trans.Linn.Soc.London 10:71 (1810)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect shrub, 0.3-2 m high. Fl. pink-cream-white, Aug to Nov. Sand or clay on laterite.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 21 September 1999
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.5-2 m high; branchlets hairy, with straight hairs. Leaves alternate, 25-100 mm long, hairy; lamina terete, more or less the same width throughout, once divided or twice or more divided, pinnately divided or tripartitely divided, entire or divided to the midrib; lobes 1-1.5 mm long, straight or curved, 1-1.5 mm long, with (3-)5-8(-14) points or lobes; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 20-40 mm. Inflorescences not viscid, cream, yellow or pink. Perianth 13-17 mm long, hairy, the limb apex hairy all over; pistil 13-18 mm long; pollen presenter not fusiform, hairy, 2.5-3.7 mm long, the brush 1-3.5 mm long. Cone with deciduous scales, 20-25 mm long. Flowers in August, September, October or November. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Dandaragan Plateau, Fitzgerald, Katanning, Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Recherche, Southern Jarrah Forest, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Beverley, Boyup Brook, Brookton, Bruce Rock, Chittering, Collie, Coorow, Corrigin, Cranbrook, Cuballing, Dandaragan, Denmark, Dumbleyung, Gingin, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Kent, Kojonup, Kondinin, Kulin, Lake Grace, Narrogin, Pingelly, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe, Victoria Plains, Wagin, West Arthur, Wickepin, Williams, Woodanilling, York.