Adenanthos venosus is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of the southwest of Western Australia. It is an openly-branched shrub with clustered egg-shaped leaves and reddish flowers.
Adenanthos venosus is an openly-branched shrub that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. Its leaves are mostly arranged in clusters at the ends of branches, egg-shaped, sometimes with the narrower end towards the base, mostly long, wide and sessile. The leaves are mostly glabrous and have a pointed tip. The flowers are dull crimson to pinkish purple with a cream-coloured band in the centre and many glandular hairs on the outside. The perianth is about long and the style about long and glabrous. Flowering occurs from August to November.[1]
Adenanthos venosus was first formally described in 1856 by Carl Meissner in de Candolle's Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis from specimens collected by James Drummond in the Swan River Colony.[2] [3] The specific epithet (venosus) means "with prominent veins".[4]
This species grows among quartzite rocks and on rocky sandstone ridges in the Fitzgerald River National Park in the south-west of Western Australia.
This adenanthos is list as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.