Conospermum microflorum
Conospermum microflorum is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a rounded shrub with glabrous, thread-like leaves, panicles of hairy, white or cream-coloured flowers and hairy, orange-brown nuts.
Description
Conospermum microflorum is a rounded shrub that typically grows to a height of. Its leaves are glabrous, threadlike, long and wide, with a brown, pointed tip. The flowers are arranged in panicles of elongated spikes on a peduncle long with densely hairy, egg-shaped bracteoles long and wide. The perianth is covered with white or cream-coloured hairs and forms a tube long. The upper lip is egg-shaped, long and wide, with a brown tip, the lower lip joined for and has oblong lobes long and wide. Flowering occurs from September to October, and the fruit is a nut long and wide, covered with orange-brown, woolly hairs.
Taxonomy
Conospermum microflorum was first formally described in 1995 by Eleanor Marion Bennett in the Flora of Australia, from specimens she collected about north of Geraldton in 1985. The specific epithet, means 'small-flowered'.
Distribution and habitat
This species of Conospermum grows on yellow sandy plains between the Murchison River bridge and Shark Bay, in the Carnarvon, Geraldton Sandplains and Yalgoo bioregions of Western Australia.