Conospermum distichum 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 ascending, thread-like leaves, and spikes of woolly white, tube-shaped flowers with blue bracteoles.
Conospermum distichum is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to . It has scattered, ascending, glabrous, thread-like leaves long and wide at the base of the plant. The flowers are arranged in spikes in upper leaf axils on a peduncle long. The bracteoles are blue, egg-shaped, long, wide, and hairy at the sides and base. The perianth is white, forming a tube long. The upper lip is blue, egg-shaped, long and wide, the lower lip joined for long with lobes long. Flowering occurs from August to November, and the fruit is a nut long and wide and orange-brown, with velvety hairs.[1]
Conospermum densiflorum was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.[2] [3] The specific epithet (distichum) means 'in two rows', referring to the leaves.[4]
This species of Conospermum grows in sandy soil on dunes, granite outcrops and roadsides, in near-coastal areas between Ravensthorpe and Mount Ragged in Cape Arid National Park in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains and Mallee bioregions of southern Western Australia.
Conospermum distichum is list as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.