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Conospermum teretifolium R.Br.
Spider Smokebush

Reference
Trans.Linn.Soc.London 10:155 (1810)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect, lignotuberous shrub, 0.6-2 m high. Fl. white-cream, Aug to Dec or Jan. Lateritic sand, white/grey sand over granite.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 2 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-1.5 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy. Leaves alternate, 40-400 mm long, 1-2.5 mm wide, glabrous; lamina terete, entire, erect. Inflorescences without leaves, the flowers aggregated into distinct clusters, the clusters stalked, white or cream, hairy; floral bracts 3-5.5 mm long, hairy. Perianth 16-28 mm long, radially symmetrical, glabrous, glabrous, the lobes 8-17 mm long. Nut 2.5-4 mm long. Flowers in January, August, September, October, November or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Jarrah Forest (JF) or Mallee (MAL) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Perth, Recherche, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
IMCRA Regions
WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Augusta Margaret River, Busselton, Capel, Cranbrook, Denmark, Esperance, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe.