Conospermum paniculatum


Conospermum paniculatum is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, much-branched shrub with spoon shaped to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and spikes of blue to pink, tube-shaped flowers, the fruit an urn-shaped nut.

Description

Conospermum paniculatum is a spreading, open shrub that typically grows to a height of. It has spoon-shaped or very narrowly egg-shaped leaves, long and wide, with the narrower end towards the base. The flowers are arranged in racemose panicles up to long, with heads of 3 to 7 flowers. The heads are borne on a peduncle long with velvety white and rust-coloured hairs. The flowers are white to pale blue and form a tube long with narrowly oblong lobes long and wide. Flowering occurs in July and from
September to November, and the fruit is a woolly hairy, urn-shaped nut about long and wide.

Taxonomy

Conospermum paniculatum was first formally described in 1995 by Eleanor Marion Bennett in the Flora of Australia from specimens she collected on the Scott River Road in 1985. The specific epithet means 'paniculate'.

Distribution and habitat

This species of Conospermum grows in swampy places, on plains and on slopes between Busselton and Scott River in the Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.