Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Conospermum ellipticum

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)