Isopogon buxifolius
Isopogon buxifolius is a species of plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an upright shrub with egg-shaped to elliptic or oblong leaves and clustered spikes of pink flowers. Description. "Isopogon buxifolius" is an upright shrub that typically grows to a height of and has mostly hairy reddish to brownish branchlets. The leaves are egg-shaped, elliptic, oblong, or egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base and long with a small point on the tip. The flowers are arranged in more or less sessile spikes  up to long and surrounded by leaves. The few involucral bracts are lance-shaped, the flowers long, pink and more or less glabrous. Flowering occurs from June to December and the fruit is a oval, hairy nut, fused with others in a cup-shaped head about long. Taxonomy. "Isopogon buxifolius" was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in the "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London". In 1870, George Bentham described four varieties of "I. buxifolius" in "Flora Australiensis" and two of his names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census: Bentham's "I. buxifolius" var. "linearis" and  var. "spathulatus" are now regarded as a synonyms of "I. spathulatus". Distribution and habitat. Variety "buxifolius" grows in swampy areas between Collie, Denmark and Albany and var. "obovatus" has been recorded in sandy loam over laterite in a small area between the Stirling Range, Cape Riche and Bremer Bay. Conservation status. Variety "buxifolius" is classified as "Priority Two" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife, meaning that it is poorly known and from only one or a few locations and var. "obovatus" as "Priority Three", meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a  few locations but is not under imminent threat.