Conospermum ericifolium is a flowering plant of the family Proteaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a slender, erect shrub with linear leaves, panicles of cream-coloured to white flowers and hairy, golden nuts.
Conospermum ericifolium is a slender, erect shrub that typically grows to a height of, sometimes to and has long, thin branches. The flowers are arranged in panicles of head-like spikes or in dense spikes, on hairy peduncles long. The bracteoles are long and wide. The perianth is cream-coloured to white forming a tube long. The upper lip is sac-like, long and wide, the lower lip joined for with lobes long and wide. Flowering in spring, and the fruit is a nut long with golden hairs.[1] [2]
Conospermum ericifolium was first formally described in 1808 by James Edward Smith in Abraham Rees's Cyclopædia from specimens collected by John White.[3] [4] The specific epithet (ericifolium) refers to the similarity of the leaves to plants in the genus Erica .[5]
This species of Conospermum grows in heath and shrubby woodland from Toukley to Nowra and Jervis Bay, on the coast around Sydney.