Conospermum bracteosum is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, spindly shrub with egg-shaped leaves, sometimes with the narrower end towards the base, and spikes of silky, woolly, tube-shaped white flowers.
Conospermum bracteosum is an erect, spindly shrub that typically grows to a height of and has egg-shaped leaves, sometimes with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide. The leaves at the base of the plant are on a petiole, but the leaves on the stem are hairy, white, overlapping, sessile and stem-clasping. The flowers are arranged in many spikes in upper leaf axils, each with up to 10 flowers, with egg-shaped bracteoles long and wide. The petals are joined at the base to form a silky-woolly tube, long, the upper lip long and wide, the lower lip with linear lobes long and about wide. Flowering occurs from September to November and the fruit is a nut about long, wide and covered with golden hairs.[1]
Conospermum bracteosum was first formally described in 1845 by Carl Meissner in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae from specimens collected in 1841.[2] [3] The specific epithet (bracteosum) means "having many, or large bracts".[4]
This species of Conospermum grows in sand, often over laterite, between Narrogin and Ravensthorpe in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia.