Conospermum ephedroides is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a tufted shrub with many stems, a few cylindrical leaves at the base of the plant, and sessile spikes of glabrous white, pale pink or blue, tube-shaped flowers and reddish-brown to orange nuts.
Conospermum ephedroides is a tufted shrub that typically grows up to tall and has many stems. There are a few cylindrical leaves long and wide at the base of the plant. The flowers are arranged in sessile spikes along leafless branches with egg-shaped, bluish-green bracteoles long and wide. The perianth is glabrous, white, pale pink or blue, forming a tube long. The upper lip is egg-shaped, long and wide, the lower lip joined for with lobes long. Flowering occurs from August to October, and the fruit is a reddish-brown to orange nut long and wide.[1]
Conospermum ephedroides was first formally described in 1855 by Carl Meissner in Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany, from an unpublished description by Richard Kippist.[2] [3] The specific epithet (ephedroides) means Ephedra-like'.[4]
This species of Conospermum grows in sand, lateritic loam and gravel between Wongan Hills and Newdegate in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia.[1]
This species of Conospermum is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.