''Isopogon gardneri'' is a plant in the family

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and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a dense, prickly shrub with sharply-pointed, interlocking leaves and hairy, pale pink or yellow flowers.

Description

''Isopogon gardneri'' is a very prickly, densely-foliaged shrub that typically grows to a height of with smooth, reddish brown branchlets. The leaves interlock with each other and are pinnate, about long on a petiole up to long, each branch of the leaves with a sharply-pointed tip. The flowers are arranged in sessile heads about long on the ends of branchlets, each head with many pale pink or yellow flowers up to about long, the heads with persistent

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at the base. Flowering occurs from September to December and the fruit is a hairy nut long, fused in a cone-shaped head up to in diameter surrounded by

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Taxonomy and naming

''Isopogon gardneri'' was first formally described in 1995 by Donald Bruce Foreman in '' Flora of Australia'' from specimens he collected near Hyden on the road to Newdegate in 1984. The

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(''gardneri'') honours Charles Gardner.

Distribution and habitat

This isopogon grows in shrubland and mallee between Dundinin, Kukerin,

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and

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in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie and Mallee

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in the south-west of Western Australia.

Conservation status

''Isopogon gardneri'' is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q18083418 gardneri Eudicots of Western Australia Plants described in 1995 Endemic flora of Western Australia