Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Isopogon anethifolius

Flowering stem. Photographer Don Wood, Morton National Park

Common name

Narrow-leaf drumsticks

Family

Proteaceae

Where found

Forest and heath. Coast north from Ulladulla. Ranges and tablelands north from Tallaganda National Park SW of Braidwood.

Notes

Shrub to 3 m high. Stems hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems,  4–15 cm long; finely divided, the ultimate segments cylindrical, often 2–3 cm long, tips pointed but not sharp. Individual flowers hairy, yellow, 10–15 mm long, tubular, with 4 spreading lobes. Flower clusters many-flowered, cone-like, more or less round. Flowering: spring. Seeding cones oval to round, 12–25 mm in diameter.

Protected NSW.

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