Isopogon linearis

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Isopogon linearis
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Isopogon
Species:
I. linearis
Binomial name
Isopogon linearis
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Occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium
Synonyms [3] [2]

Atylus linearis (Meisn.) Kuntze

Isopogon linearis is a small shrub in the family Proteaceae that is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia.

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Description

Isopogon linearis is a small shrub (.5-1.5 m high) with branchlets covered in straight hairs. The hairy, flat leaves are alternate, and 25–90 mm long, and 2–7 mm wide. They are roughly the same width for their entire length, and have smooth edges. The pink inflorescence is not sticky. The hairy perianth 20–24 mm long. The pistil is 20–25 mm long and the hairy pollen presenter is not spindle-shaped and is 3–4.5 mm long. The cone has deciduous scales, and is 23–25 mm long. The plant flowers in August, September or October. [4]

Taxonomy

The species was first formally described by botanist Carl Meissner in Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany in 1855. [2] In 1891, German botanist Otto Kuntze published Revisio generum plantarum , his response to what he perceived as a lack of method in existing nomenclatural practice. [5] Because Isopogon was based on Isopogon anemonifolius , [6] and that species had already been placed by Richard Salisbury in the segregate genus Atylus in 1807, [7] Kuntze revived the latter genus on the grounds of priority, and made the new combination Atylus linearis for this species. [8] However, Kuntze's revisionary program was not accepted by the majority of botanists. [5] Ultimately, the genus Isopogon was nomenclaturally conserved over Atylus by the International Botanical Congress of 1905. [9]

The accepted description for Isopogon linearis is that of Foreman (1995) in Flora of Australia . [2] [10]

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References

  1. Meisner, C.D.F. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1855) New Proteaceae of Australia. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 7: 69
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  3. Govaerts, R. et al. (2018) Plants of the world online: Isopogon linearis. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  4. "Isopogon linearis". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  5. 1 2 Erickson, Robert F. "Kuntze, Otto (1843–1907)". Botanicus.org. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
  6. Knight, Joseph (1809). On the Cultivation of the Plants Belonging to the Natural Order of Proteeae. London, United Kingdom: W. Savage. p.  94.
  7. Hooker, William (1805). The Paradisus Londinensis. Vol. 1. London, United Kingdom: D. N. Shury.
  8. Kuntze, Otto (1891). Revisio generum plantarum:vascularium omnium atque cellularium multarum secundum leges nomenclaturae internationales cum enumeratione plantarum exoticarum in itinere mundi collectarum. Leipzig, Germany: A. Felix. p. 577.
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  10. Foreman, D.B. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995) Isopogon. Flora of Australia 16: 214, Fig. 103, Map 213. See Flora of Australia online.