Conospermum glumaceum
Conospermum glumaceum, commonly known as hooded smokebush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with more or less clustered, linear leaves, and panicles of dense, head-like spikes of tube-shaped, cream-coloured flowers and white to golden nuts.
Description
Conospermum glumaceum is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and does not form a lignotuber. Its leaves are linear, more or less clustered, long and wide with a small point on the tip. The flowers are borne in panicles in upper leaf axils, ending in dense, head-like spikes on a peduncle long. There are D-shaped to lance-shaped yellow bracteoles on the pedicels that age to brown. The flowers are cream-coloured, tube-shaped long. The upper lip of the perianth is egg-shaped, long, wide, and curved backwards, the lower lip joined for with oblong lobes long. Flowering occurs from September to November, and the fruit is a nut long and wide and covered with shaggy white to golden hairs.Taxonomy
Conospermum glumaceum was first formally described in John Lindley's 1839 A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony, based on unspecified material.Lindley referred to it as a "strange species" that "has altogether the appearance of some Bupleurum with great membranous bracts." The specific epithet means glumaceous, referring to the bracts enclosing each flower.