Conostephium magnum
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| Conostephium magnum | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Conostephium |
| Species: | C. magnum |
| Binomial name | |
| Conostephium magnum | |
Conostephium magnum is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, compact shrub with scattered lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end toward the base, and pendulous, spindle-shaped, cream-coloured to white and pink flowers arranged singly in leaf axils.
Conostephium magnum is an erect, compact shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.4–2 m (1 ft 4 in – 6 ft 7 in), and has many stems at the base. The leaves are lance-shaped with the narrower end toward the base, 11–28 mm (0.43–1.10 in) long and 2–4 mm (0.079–0.157 in) wide on a petiole 1.0–1.7 mm (0.039–0.067 in) long. The leaves are glabrous and the edges are often rolled inwards. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils on a pendulous pedicel 1.5–3 mm (0.059–0.118 in) long with 4 to 6 bracts and 3 to 5 bracteoles 6–8 mm (0.24–0.31 in) long and about 3 mm (0.12 in) wide, grading into the sepals. The sepals are narrowly egg-shaped, 7–9 mm (0.28–0.35 in) long and overlap each other, the petal tube usually white to cream-coloured and pink, 7–9 mm (0.28–0.35 in) long. Flowering occurs from July to September, the fruit more or less spherical and about 6 mm (0.24 in) long.[2][3]
Taxonomy and naming
Conostephium magnum was first formally described in 2002 by Raymond Jeffrey Cranfield in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected near the Tiwest Cooljarloo mine site in 1993.[2][4] The specific epithet (magnum) means "large", referring to the height of the species.[2]