Isopogon asper
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Isopogon
Species:
I. asper
Binomial name
Isopogon asper
Occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium
Synonyms[1]
Habit

Isopogon asper is a species of plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low shrub with crowded pinnate leaves and flattened spherical heads of glabrous pink flowers.

Description

Isopogon asper is a shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.2–0.8 m (7.9 in – 2 ft 7.5 in) and has hairy reddish-brown branchlets. The leaves are crowded, up to about 20 mm (0.79 in) long and pinnate with cylindrical or grooved leaflets on a petiole up to about 13 mm (0.51 in) long. The flowers are arranged in sessile, densely clustered, flattened-spherical heads up to 40 mm (1.6 in) in diameter. The involucral bracts are egg-shaped and pointed and the flowers are about 18 mm (0.71 in) long, pink and glabrous. Flowering occurs from June to October and the fruit is a hairy nut, fused in a spherical head up to 20 mm (0.79 in) in diameter.[2][3]

Taxonomy

Isopogon asper was first formally described in 1830 by Robert Brown in the Supplementum to his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen from specimens collected in 1827 near the Swan River, by Charles Fraser.[4][5]

Distribution and habitat

This isopogon grows in low open heath, often with soil derived from granite, from Harvey to near Jurien Bay in the south-west of Western Australia.[2][3]

Conservation status

This isopogon is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Isopogon asper". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  2. 1 2 Foreman, David B. "Isopogon asper". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 "Isopogon asper". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  4. ↑ "Isopogon asper". APNI. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  5. ↑ Brown, Robert (1830). Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae. London. p. 8. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
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