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Isopogon tridens (Meisn.) F.Muell.
Three-toothed Coneflower

Reference
Fragm. (Mueller) 6:239 (1868)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Bushy shrub, 0.5-1.2 m high. Fl. white-cream/purple, Jun to Aug. Grey or white sand, sometimes over laterite.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 22 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-1.5 m high; branchlets hairy, with straight hairs. Leaves alternate, 35-85 mm long, glabrous; lamina flat, once divided, tripartitely divided or divided only at the apex, shallowly divided, with 2-3 points or lobes; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 20-30 mm. Inflorescences not viscid, white, cream or yellow. Perianth 15-18 mm long, hairy, the limb apex hairy at the apex only; pistil 15-18 mm long; pollen presenter not fusiform, hairy, 3-5 mm long, the brush 2-2.5 mm long. Cone with deciduous scales, 18-20 mm long. Flowers in June, July or August. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS) or Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Geraldton Sandplains.
IBRA Subregions
Lesueur Sandplain.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Carnamah, Coorow, Dandaragan, Irwin, Mingenew, Three Springs.