Conospermum wycherleyi is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with spoon-shaped to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, spike-like panicles of woolly, white, tube-shaped flowers and nuts with cream-coloured to orange hairs.
Conospermum wycherleyi is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are spoon-shaped to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long, wide and arranged at the base of the flowers. The flowers are borne in spike-like panicles on a silky, velvety hairy peduncle long with dark brown bracteoles long, wide and densely hairy. The flowers are white and woolly, forming a tube long, the upper lip egg-shaped, long and wide, the lower lip with narrowly oblong lobes long and wide and covered with shaggy, silky hairs. Flowering time depends on subspecies, and the fruit is a hairy nut about long and wide with cream-coloured hairs, woolly hairs.[1]
Conospermum wycherleyi was first formally described in 1995 by Eleanor Marion Bennett in the Flora of Australia from specimens collected by Charles Gardner near Eneabba Creek in 1948.[2] The specific epithet (wycherleyi) honours Paul Wycherley, the director of Kings Park and Botanical Garden from 1971 to 1992.[3]
In the same edition of Flora of Australia, Bennett described C. wycherleyi subsp.glabrum, and its name, and the name of the autonym are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:
This species of Conospermum grows in sandy soils and laterite on sandplains near Badgingarra and Eneabba and north to Walkaway in the Geraldton Sandplains and Jarrah Forest bioregions of south-western Western Australia.Subspecies glabrum occurs between Lake Logue and Walkaway, and subsp. wycherleyi grows near Eneabba.