Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Isopogon prostratus

Flower head and leaves. Photographer Jeff Jeanes, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board, Melbourne, Vic

Flowering stem. Photographer Don Wood, Ben Boyd National Park south of Eden

Branches with flowers in bud. Photographer Jackie Miles, Ben Boyd National Park south of Eden

Fruiting cone. Photographer Andre Messina, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board, Melbourne, Vic

Line drawings. b. flowering branch; c. flower; d. cone; e. seed. G Thomlinson, G., National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board

Common name

Prostrate cone-bush

Family

Proteaceae

Where found

Dry forest and heath, often in exposed situations. Ranges. Tablelands north of the ACT and Braidwood. Coastal in the Nowra district and south from Montague Island near Narooma.

Notes

Prostrate shrub to 1 m or more diameter, occasionally more or less erect. Young shoots and branchlets hairy, reddish. Leaves alternating along the stems, 4–10.5 cm long, divided, ultimate segments 1–2 mm wide, flattened, surfaces hairless but rough with minute projections, ridged on lower surface at least at the midrib and margins. Individual flowers yellow, about 3-12 mm long, tubular, with 4 spreading lobes, hairless except for a tuft of long hairs at the tips. Flower clusters many-flowered, cone-like, more or less round. Flowering: spring and summer. Seeding cones more or less round, 12–20 mm in diameter.

Protected NSW. Endangered Vic. Listed in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, Vic.

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