Description
''Isopogon inconspicuus'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of , its branchlets covered with woolly, brownish to greyish hairs. The leaves are crowded, long and pinnate with cylindrical leaflets on a petiole up to long. The flowers are arranged in spherical, sessile heads about long, crowded near the ends of branchlets, each head with usually drooping pink to purple flowers about long, and covered with grey hairs. Flowering occurs from August to November and the fruit is a hairy nut up to long, fused in a oval to spherical head in diameter.Taxonomy and naming
This isopogon was first formally described in 1855 by Carl Meissner in Hooker's '' Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany'' and given the name ''Petrophile inconspicua'' from specimens collected by James Drummond. In 1995, Donald Bruce Foreman changed the name to ''Isopogon inconspicuus'' in '' Flora of Australia''.Distribution and habitat
''Isopogon inconspicuus'' grows in heath and shrubland on sandplains between Dandaragan and Eneabba.References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q18076285 inconspicuus Eudicots of Western Australia Plants described in 1855 Taxa named by Carl Meissner