Isopogon Divergens
''Isopogon divergens'', commonly known as spreading coneflower, is a species of plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with pinnate leaves and more or less spherical heads of glabrous pink flowers followed by an oval to cylindrical fruiting cone. Description ''Isopogon divergens'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has reddish brown branchlets. The leaves are long on a petiole up to long, pinnate or bipinnate with cylindrical leaflets wide. The flowers are arranged in spherical, oblong or oval, sessile heads long in diameter with egg-shaped involucral bracts at the base. The flowers are about long, pink, often tinted with mauve and are glabrous. Flowering occurs from August to October and the fruit is a hairy oval nut, fused with others in a spherical cone long. Taxonomy ''Isopogon divergens'' was first formally described in 1830 by Robert Brown in the '' Supplementum'' to his '' Pro ...
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Robert Brown (botanist, Born 1773)
Robert Brown (21 December 1773 – 10 June 1858) was a Scottish botanist and paleobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope. His contributions include one of the earliest detailed descriptions of the cell nucleus and cytoplasmic streaming; the observation of Brownian motion; early work on plant pollination and fertilisation, including being the first to recognise the fundamental difference between gymnosperms and angiosperms; and some of the earliest studies in palynology. He also made numerous contributions to plant taxonomy, notably erecting a number of plant families that are still accepted today; and numerous Australian plant genera and species, the fruit of his exploration of that continent with Matthew Flinders. Early life Robert Brown was born in Montrose on 21 December 1773, in a house that existed on the site where Montrose Library currently stands. He was the son of James Brown, a minister in the ...
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