Proteaceae

Leaves alternate
Flowers sessile
Leaves undivided
Flowers in dense many-flowered spikes.
Fruit a nut enclosed in the woody bracts. Flowers solitary in each bract. Inflorescence globular <5 cm long. Isopogon
Leaves entire, oblanceolate, coriaceous, tapering gradually to an almost sessile base, 4–8 cm long, 5–20 mm wide. Stout, erect shrub up to 1.5 m high. Blue Mts, e.g. Blackheath. Sheltered places in DSF and heath, particularly on steep slopes. Vulnerable. Fl. spring–summer Isopogon fletcheri