Long leaf smokebush | |
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Flowering Conospermum longifolium at Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, Australia | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Proteales |
Family: | Proteaceae |
Genus: | Conospermum |
Species: | C. longifolium |
Binomial name | |
Conospermum longifolium | |
Conospermum longifolium, commonly known as the long leaf smokebush, is a shrub of the family Proteaceae native to eastern Australia. Found between Ulladulla, Newcastle, New South Wales and the adjacent ranges. The habitat is drier eucalyptus woodlands or heathland. [1]
Three sub-species are recognised:
Conospermum is a genus of about 50 species in the family Proteaceae that are endemic to Australia. Members of the genus are known as smokebushes - from a distance, their wispy heads of blue or grey flowers resemble puffs of smoke. They have an unusual pollination method that sometimes leads to the death of visiting insects. They are found in all Australian states, though most occur only in Western Australia. Smokebushes are rarely cultivated, though the flowers of several Western Australian species are harvested for the cut flower industry.
Hypocalymma is a genus of evergreen shrubs in the myrtle family Myrtaceae described as a genus in 1840. The entire genus is endemic to southern Western Australia.
Phebalium is a genus of thirty species of shrubs or small trees in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to Australia. The leaves are arranged alternately, simple and often warty, the flowers arranged singly or in umbels on the ends of branchlets or in leaf axils, usually with five sepals, five petals and ten stamens. There are about thirty species and they are found in all Australian states but not in the Northern Territory.
Conospermum acerosum, commonly known as needle-leaved smokebush, is a shrub endemic to Western Australia
Conospermum stoechadis, commonly known as common smokebush, is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.
Conospermum stoechadis subsp. sclerophyllum is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.
Conospermum incurvum, commonly known as plume smokebush, is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.
Synaphea is a genus of small shrubs and is endemic to Western Australia. Synapheas have variably shaped leaves but consistently yellow flowers with an unusual pollination mechanism.
Conospermum caeruleum, commonly known as blue brother, is a shrub in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south west of Western Australia. It is a prostrate shrub with small, dense heads of blue, rarely pink flowers and usually grows in heavy soils subject to flooding.
Leptospermum madidum is a species of shrub or small tree that is endemic to north-western Australia. It has weeping branches, smooth bark, pale green linear leaves, small white flowers and thin-walled fruit.
Conospermum amoenum, commonly known as blue smokebush, is a shrub endemic to Western Australia
Conospermum capitatum is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.
Conospermum coerulescens is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.
Conospermum densiflorum, commonly known as crown smokebush, is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.
Conospermum filifolium is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.
Conospermum flexuosum, commonly known as the tangled smokebush, is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.
Conospermum huegelii, commonly known as the slender smokebush, is a plant endemic to Western Australia.
Conospermum wycherleyi is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.
Phebalium longifolium is a species of shrub that is endemic to far north Queensland. It is more or less covered with silvery to rust-coloured scales and has smooth branchlets, narrow elliptical to narrow lance-shaped leaves and cream-coloured flowers in umbels on the ends of branchlets. It grows in the boundary between forest and rainforest in tropical areas.