Isopogon
''Isopogon'', commonly known as conesticks, conebushes or coneflowers, is a genus of about forty species of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae, and are Endemism, endemic to Australia. They are shrubs with rigid leaves, Plant reproductive morphology#Bisexual , bisexual flowers in a dense spike or "cone" and the fruit is a small, hairy Nut (fruit), nut. Description Plants in the genus ''Isopogon'' are erect or prostrate shrubs with rigid, usually Leaf#Divisions of the blade, compound, rarely simple leaves. Compound leaves are deeply divided with flat or cylindrical lobes. The flowers are usually arranged on the ends of branches, usually surrounded by Bract#Involucral_bracts, bracts, in a more or less conical or spherical spike. Each flower is bisexual and symmetrical, the tepals spreading as the flower develops, the lower part persisting until the fruit expands. The fruit are fused to form a woody cone-like to more or less spherical structure, each fruit a nut with bracts t ...
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