Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Conospermum ellipticum

Flowering stem. Photographer John Tann, Royal National Park, Sydney

Flowering stems with some spent flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

A Smoke Bush

Family

Proteaceae

Where found

Wet heath. Coastal north from Ulladulla. Ranges north from west of Wollongong.

Notes

Shrub  to 0.80 m high. Branches hairy to hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, often crowded, not twisted, 0.5–2.5 cm long, 3–8 mm wide, tips gradually tapering to a fine point, surfaces hairless. Flowers cream to white, 6–8 mm long, tubular, with 4 lobes. Flowers in branched clusters. Flowering: spring.

Intergrades with Conospermum taxifolium where populations overlap.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Conospermum~ellipticum (accessed 7 January, 2021)