Isopogon teretifolius

Nodding coneflower
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Isopogon
Species: I. teretifolius
Binomial name
Isopogon teretifolius
R.Br.
Synonyms

Atylus teretifolius (R.Br.) Kuntze

Isopogon teretifolius, commonly known as the nodding coneflower, is a small shrub of the family Proteaceae that is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia.[1]

Taxonomy

Isopogon teretifolius was first described by Robert Brown in 1810.[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.[3] Because Isopogon was based on Isopogon anemonifolius,[4] and that species had already been placed by Richard Salisbury in the segregate genus Atylus in 1807,[5] Kuntze revived the latter genus on the grounds of priority, and made the new combination Atylus teretifolius for this species.[6] However, Kuntze's revisionary program was not accepted by the majority of botanists.[3] Ultimately, the genus Isopogon was nomenclaturally conserved over Atylus by the International Botanical Congress of 1905.[7]

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