Conospermum galeatum
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| Conospermum galeatum | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Conospermum |
| Species: | C. galeatum |
| Binomial name | |
| Conospermum galeatum | |
Conospermum galeatum is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an open shrub with threadlike, channelled leaves, and panicles of spikes of woolly white flowers with blue bracteoles.
Conospermum galeatum is an open shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 70 cm (28 in). It has thread-like, curved, channelled leaves 40–50 mm (1.6–2.0 in) long and about 0.5 mm (0.020 in) wide. The flowers are woolly and white, arranged a panicle of spikes on a peduncle 160–200 mm (6.3–7.9 in) long, the perianth forming a tube 5–8 mm (0.20–0.31 in) long. The bracteoles are egg-shaped, 2.5–3.0 mm (0.098–0.118 in) long and 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) wide and have woolly hairs. The upper lip of the perianth is egg-shaped, 1.0–1.5 mm (0.039–0.059 in) long, about 2 mm (0.079 in) wide, blue and glabrous, the lower lip joined for about 1 mm (0.039 in) with oblong lobes 0.75–1.0 mm (0.030–0.039 in) long. Flowering occurs from August to September.[2][3]
Taxonomy
Conospermum galeatum was collected near Kellerberrin 1897 and again in 1901 at the same location. The species was first formally described in 1995 by Eleanor Marion Bennett in the Flora of Australia from specimens collected in 1929 between Bruce Rock and Narembeen by William Blackall.[2][4][5] The specific epithet (galeatum) means 'helmeted', and possibly refers to the upper lip of the perianth.[6]
