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Isopogon uncinatus R.Br.

Reference
Prodr. Suppl. 8 (1830)
Conservation Code
Threatened
A taxon name retains its ‘Threatened’ status until a new name has been officially endorsed and appears in the Gazettal Notice.
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Tufted spreading or prostrate, non-lignotuberous shrub, 0.05-0.4 m high. Fl. yellow/cream, Oct to Nov. Loam or sand on granite, peaty sand. Swampy depressions, hillslopes.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 22 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.30-0.50 m high; branchlets hairy, with straight hairs. Leaves alternate, 80-320 mm long, 3-9 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, entire. Inflorescences not viscid, yellow. Perianth 18-20 mm long, hairy, the limb apex hairy all over; pistil 18-22 mm long; pollen presenter not fusiform, hairy, the brush 2-3 mm long. Cone with deciduous scales, 10-12 mm long. Flowers in October or November. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Jarrah Forest (JF) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Threatened (T).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
IMCRA Regions
WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Plantagenet.