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Conospermum flexuosum subsp. laevigatum (Meisn.) E.M.Benn.

Reference
Fl.Australia 16:484 (1995)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Sprawling, tangled, flexuose, non-lignotuberous shrub, 0.2-1.5 m high. Fl. white/white-blue, Jun to Oct. Grey sand. Winter-wet depressions.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 9 July 1996
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.5-1.5 m high; branchlets glabrous. Leaves alternate, 80-310 mm long, 4-17 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, entire, erect. Inflorescences without leaves, the flowers aggregated into distinct clusters, the clusters stalked, white or blue, hairy; floral bracts 1.5-3.5 mm long, hairy. Perianth 5-8 mm long, radially symmetrical, hairy, the lobes 2-4.5 mm long. Nut 2.5-3 mm long. Flowers in June, July, August, September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Jarrah Forest (JF) or Warren (WAR) IBRA subregion(s).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 19 January 2024

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Augusta Margaret River, Busselton, Capel, Collie, Donnybrook-Balingup, Harvey, Manjimup, Waroona, West Arthur.