Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Isopogon dawsonii

Flower head and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Royal Botanic Gardens Mt Annan, near Campbelltown

Flowering branches. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Glenbrook National Park, Blue Mouintains

Common name

Nepean conebush

Family

Proteaceae

Where found

Dry forest and heath. Blue Mountains and north. Rarely in the ranges farther south.

Notes

Shrub to 3 m high, Young branchlets densely covered with whitish hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 8–12 cm long; deeply divided, the undivided part about as long as the divided part, segments 1–3 mm wide, ultimate segments flat, linear and often more than 10 mm long. Individual flowers creamy-yellowish, densely covered with silky hairs, 15–18 mm long, tubular, with 4 spreading lobes. Seeding cones more or less round, 15–18 mm in diameter. Flowering: spring.

Protected NSW.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Isopogon~dawsonii  (accessed 19 January, 2021)