Isopogon Linearis

''Isopogon linearis'' is a small shrub in the family Proteaceae that is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia.

Description

''Isopogon linearis'' is a small shrub (.5-1.5 m high) with branchlets covered in straight hairs. The hairy, flat leaves are alternate, and 25–90 mm long, and 2–7 mm wide. They are roughly the same width for their entire length, and have smooth edges. The pink inflorescence is not sticky. The hairy perianth 20–24 mm long. The pistil is 20–25 mm long and the hairy pollen presenter is not spindle-shaped and is 3–4.5 mm long. The cone has deciduous scales, and is 23–25 mm long. The plant flowers in August, September or October.

Taxonomy

The species was first formally described by botanist Carl Meissner in ''Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany'' in 1855. In 1891, German botanist Otto Kuntze published '' Revisio generum plantarum'', his response to what he perceived as a lack of method in existing nomenclatural practice. Because ''Isopogon'' was based on '' Isopogon anemonifolius'', and that species had already been placed by Richard Salisbury in the segregate genus ''Atylus'' in 1807, Kuntze revived the latter genus on the grounds of priority, and made the new combination ''Atylus linearis'' for this species. However, Kuntze's revisionary program was not accepted by the majority of botanists. Ultimately, the genus ''Isopogon'' was nomenclaturally conserved over ''Atylus'' by the International Botanical Congress of 1905.

The accepted description for ''Isopogon linearis'' is that of Foreman (1995) in '' Flora of Australia''.Foreman, D.B. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995) Isopogon. ''Flora of Australia 16'': 214, Fig. 103, Map 213
See Flora of Australia online.

References

External links

The Australasian Virtual Herbarium – Occurrence data for ''Isopogon linearis''

Google images: ''Isopogon linearis''

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Eudicots of Western Australia
linearis
Plants described in 1855