Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Isopogon alcicornis
Proteaceae Juss.
Isopogon alcicornis Diels , legitimate, scientific
Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G. (15 April 1904), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 35(1): 134, fig. 13 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "in distr. Eyre a sinu Esperance Bay circ. 45 km septentrionem versus in arenosis fruticulosis flor. m. Octob. exeunt., Nov. (D. 5331)."
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 64 [secondary reference]
Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 427 (map) [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "From Latin, alci-, elk, and -cornis, horned, referring to the floral leaves, which are erect and forked like antlers."
Hopper, S.D., van Leeuwen, S.J., Brown, A.P. & Patrick, S.J. (1990), Western Australia's Endangered Flora: 115, 131 [secondary reference]
Foreman, D.B. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Isopogon. Flora of Australia 16: 210-212, Fig. 101, Map 207 APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Dist.: WA