Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Isopogon fletcheri

Flower head and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flower heads and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Geoff Butler, Blue Mouintains

Common name

Fletcher's drumsticks

Family

Proteaceae

Where found

Dry forest and heath on moist sheltered cliffs within the spray zone of a waterfall. Blue Mountains

Notes

Shrub to 1.5 m high, Stems longitudinally ridged, more or less hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 4–12 cm long, 5–20 mm wide, leathery, margins entire. Individual flowers creamy green, often with yellow styles, about 15 mm long, tubular, with 4 spreading lobes, hairless. Flowering: spring and summer. Seeding cones more or less round, 15–20 mm in diameter

Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. Protected NSW.

NSW Threatened Species profile:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10440 (accessed 6 January, 2021)

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Isopogon~fletcheri  (accessed 6 January, 2021)