Isopogon crithmifolius is a species of plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with divided leaves and more or less spherical heads of glabrous reddish pink flowers.
Isopogon crithmifolius is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has hairy pale brown branchlets. The leaves are long on a petiole long, divided into two or three lobes, the lobes often further divided. The flowers are arranged in more or less spherical, sessile heads long in diameter with egg-shaped involucral bracts at the base. The flowers are long, reddish pink and glabrous. Flowering occurs from September to October and the fruit is a hairy oval nut, fused with others in a spherical cone in diameter.[1]
Isopogon crithmifolius was first formally described in 1868 by Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected by James Drummond.[2] [3]
This isopogon grows in forest and woodland from near Perth to near Cranbrook in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions in the south-west of Western Australia.
Isopogon crithmifolius is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.