Isopogon linearis Meisn.

Shrub to 1.5 m tall. Branchlets pale to mid-brown, reddish brown or grey, softly pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves simple, to c. 9 cm long; petiole not distinct; lamina linear, flat, with thickened margins and a few ±oblique veins visible, minutely scabrous, softly pubescent, glabrescent; apex tapering to a sharp point. Inflorescence ±globose, terminal, sessile, mostly solitary or sometimes 2-3-clustered, 35-40 mm diam.; involucral bracts broadly ovate, imbricate, acute, silky-pubescent; cone scales narrowly ovate to linear, acuminate, woolly-villous outside. Flowers to c. 22 mm long, pink, glabrous. Pollen presenter c. 4 mm long; basal part papillose, swollen, constricted near mid-point then dilated into a globose part which merges with the glabrous, gradually tapered brush. Cones globose to ovoid-conical, c. 25 mm diam. Nuts ovoid, beaked, to c. 2.5-4 mm long, villous.

Grows in low, open heath in bleached sand or laterite, and in open shrubland on laterite ridges.