Isopogon ceratophyllus
R.Br. Horny Cone-bushPrickly shrub, to c. 1 m high, 1.2 m diam.; branchlets red-brown, sparsely villous. Leaves pinnatisect, pungent-pointed, 3–9.2 cm long overall, flattened, glabrous to sparsely villous, lateral pinnae dichotomously or trichotomously divided; petiole 1.2–5.6 cm long. Inflorescence c. globular, mostly terminal, sessile, c. 1.5 cm diam.; involucral bracts glabrous, broadly-ovate to ovate; cone scales narrow-ovate to ovate, villous on the lower half outside. Flowers to c. 1.5 cm long, yellow, glabrous except for a tuft of hairs on the apex of each tepal; pollen presenter at base papillose, hardly swollen, constricted near midway then dilated into globular region, apical part glabrous, hardly swollen except for the apical stigma-bearing cup, c. 3 mm long. Cones c. globular, to c. 2.2 cm diam.; nuts villous, ovoid, tapered into a persisting style base, to c. 3 mm long. Flowers Jul.–Jan.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, Brid, VVP, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, WPro, HSF, OtR, Strz. Also SA, Tas. (Bass Strait islands). In Victoria chiefly in south-west but extending as far east as Wilsons Promontory. Common on sand or sandy soils, in heathy low open-forest and woodland, or in treeless heaths.
Plants may regenerate after fire from a woody lignotuber.
Foreman, D.B. (1996). Isopogon. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 838–839. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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