Conospermum glumaceum

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Hooded smokebush
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Conospermum
Species:
C. glumaceum
Binomial name
Conospermum glumaceum
Synonyms [1]

Conospermum lupulinum Endl.

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Habit

Conospermum glumaceum, commonly known as hooded smokebush, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with more or less clustered, linear leaves, and panicles of dense, head-like spikes of tube-shaped, cream-coloured flowers and white to golden nuts.

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Description

Conospermum glumaceum is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 0.5–1.7 m (1 ft 8 in – 5 ft 7 in) and does not form a lignotuber. Its leaves are linear, more or less clustered, 15–75 mm (0.59–2.95 in) long and 1–5 mm (0.039–0.197 in) wide with a small point on the tip. The flowers are borne in panicles in upper leaf axils, ending in dense, head-like spikes on a peduncle 15–40 mm (0.59–1.57 in) long. There are D-shaped to lance-shaped yellow bracteoles on the pedicels, that age to brown. The flowers are cream-coloured and form a tube 0.75–1.7 mm (0.030–0.067 in) long. The upper lip of the perianth is egg-shaped, 0.8–1.3 mm (0.031–0.051 in) long, 0.75–1.2 mm (0.030–0.047 in) wide, and curved backwards, the lower lip joined for 0.5–1.3 mm (0.020–0.051 in) with oblong lobes 0.6–1.0 mm (0.024–0.039 in) long. Flowering occurs from September to November, and the fruit is a nut 2.7–3.0 mm (0.11–0.12 in) long and 2.0–2.4 mm (0.079–0.094 in) wide and covered with shaggy white to golden hairs. [3] [2]

Taxonomy

Conospermum glumaceum was first formally described in John Lindley's 1839 A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony , based on unspecified material. [4] [5] Lindley referred to it as a "strange species" that "has altogether the appearance of some Bupleurum with great membranous bracts." [5] The specific epithet (glumaceum) means glumaceous, referring to the bracts enclosing each flower. [6]

Distribution and habitat

This species of Conospermum grows in lateritic soils in hilly terrain, between Eneabba and Red Hill in Western Australia in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions. [2] [3]

Conservation status

Hooded smokebush is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Conospermum glumaceum". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Conospermum glumaceum Lindl". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  3. 1 2 "Conospermum galeatum". Flora of Australia Online. Department of the Environment and Heritage, Australian Government. OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
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  5. 1 2 Lindley, John (1839). A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony. London: James Ridgway. p. xxx. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
  6. George, Alex; Sharr, Francis (2021). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 208. ISBN   9780958034180.