Conospermum filifolium

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Conospermum filifolium
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Conospermum
Species:
C. filifolium
Binomial name
Conospermum filifolium
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Habit

Conospermum filifolium is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with thread-like, S-shaped leaves, and spike-like panicles of woolly white, occasionally blue, tube-shaped flowers. [2]

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Description

Conospermum filifolium is a shrub that typically grows up to 80 cm (31 in) tall. It has ascending, thread-like, usually more or less S-shaped leaves 20–85 mm (0.79–3.35 in) long and 0.3–0.7 mm (0.012–0.028 in) wide. The flowers are arranged in narrow, spike-like panicles with egg-shaped, blue bracteoles 2–4 mm (0.079–0.157 in) long and 0.7–1.8 mm (0.028–0.071 in) wide. The perianth is woolly and white, occasionally blue, forming a tube 2.5–7 mm (0.098–0.276 in) long. The upper lip is egg-shaped, 2.0–3.2 mm (0.079–0.126 in) long and 0.7–1.8 mm (0.028–0.071 in) wide, the lower lip joined for 1.5–2.5 mm (0.059–0.098 in) with lobes 0.5–0.6 mm (0.020–0.024 in) long and 0.15–0.3 mm (0.0059–0.0118 in) wide. Flowering time depends on subspecies. [3] [4]

Taxonomy

Conospermum filifolium was first formally described in 1845 by Carl Meissner in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae from specimen collected near the Swan River by James Drummond. [5] [6] The specific epithet (filifolium) means 'thread-leaved'. [7]

Subspecies

In 1995, Eleanor Marion Bennett described two subspecies of Conospermum filifolium in the Flora of Australia , and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:

Distribution and habitat

This species of Conospermum is widespread on sand plain areas from south of Perth to Ravensthorpe in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions. [2] Subspecies australe occurs from the Stirling Range south-east to Ravensthorpe [10] and subsp. filifolium occurs inland between Perth and Albany [13]

Conservation status

Both subspecies of C. filifolium are listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. [10] [13]

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