Conospermum ellipticum is a species of flowering plant in family Proteaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with hairy, elliptic leaves, panicles of cream-coloured to white flowers and golden, hairy nuts.
Conospermum ellipticum is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of and has wand-like branches, sometimes covered with woolly hairs. The leaves are erect to spreading, elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide with a tapering tip. The flowers are arranged in panicles on a white, hairy peduncle long with bracteoles long and wide. The perianth is densely covered with soft, white hairs and joined at the base to form a tube long. The upper lobe is egg-shaped, sac-like, densely covered with soft, white hairs, long and long. The lower lip is joined for with lobes long and wide. Flowering occurs in spring, and the fruit is a nut long and covered with golden hairs.[1] [2] [3]
Conospermum ellipticum was first formally described in 1808 by James Edward Smith in The Cyclopaedia from specimens collected by John White.[4] [5] The specific epithet (ellipticum) means 'elliptic'.[6]
This species of Conospermum grows in wet heath on shallow sandy soil on sandstone, mainly in coastal areas between Broken Bay and Jervis Bay.