Conospermum brachyphyllum

Conospermum brachyphyllum is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an open shrub thread-like leaves, and panicles of woolly, white flowers.

Description

Conospermum brachyphyllum is an open shrub that typically grows to a height of. It has ascending, thread-like leaves, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in a panicle of spikes on a peduncle long with bluish-brown bracteoles long and wide with a woolly base. The flowers are white, forming a tube long, the upper lip egg-shaped, long and wide, the lower lip joined for long with lobes long. Flowering occurs from August to October.

Taxonomy

Conospermum brachyphyllum was first formally described in 1839 by John Lindley in his A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony. The specific epithet means "short-leaved".

Distribution

This species of Conospermum grows in sand over laterite or in gravel between Moora and Geraldton in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.