''Isopogon axillaris'' is a species of plant in the family

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and is

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to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with thick, linear to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base and oval heads of pink or purple flowers.

Description

''Isopogon axillaris'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has

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, brown branchlets. The leaves are linear to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long, wide and more or less

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. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils in sessile, oval heads up to long with a few overlapping elliptic involucral bracts at the base. The flowers are long and pale pink to purplish pink. Flowering occurs from July to October and the fruit is a hairy, spherical

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, fused with others in an oval head about in diameter.

Taxonomy

''Isopogon axillaris'' was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in the ''

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''.

Distribution and habitat

This isopogon grows in wet or swampy areas from near Karridale to Albany in the south-west of Western Australia.

Conservation status

''Isopogon axillaris'' is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q18082335 axillaris Eudicots of Western Australia Plants described in 1810 Endemic flora of Western Australia Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)