Английская Википедия:Isopogon alcicornis

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Isopogon alcicornis, commonly known as the elkhorn coneflower,[1] is a plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to part of the South Coast Western Australia. It is a low shrub with pinnately-lobed leaves and oval heads of hairy, white or pink flowers.

Description

Isopogon alcicornis is a shrub that typically grows to a height of about Шаблон:Cvt and has hairy pale brown to gray branchlets. The leaves are mostly pinnately lobed with two to five flat lobes, linear to lance-shaped and Шаблон:Cvt long on a petiole up to Шаблон:Cvt or sometimes longer. The flowers are arranged in sessile, oval or elliptic heads up to Шаблон:Cvt in diameter on the ends of branchlets, each head with hairy, pink flowers often hidden by the leaves. There are hairy, spatula-shaped involucral bracts at the base of the flowering head. Flowering mainly occurs from October to November and the fruit is a hairy nut, fused in an oval head up to Шаблон:Cvt in diameter.[1][2]

Taxonomy

Isopogon alcicornis was first formally described in 1903 by Ludwig Diels in Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie.[3][4]

Distribution and habitat

Elkhorn coneflower grows in low shrubland on the near Esperance and on Mount Baring near the Cape Arid National Park in the south-west of Western Australia.[1][2]

Conservation status

This isopogon is classified as "Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife[1] meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat.[5]

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