Family: Proteaceae
Plant: A sprawling or prostrate shrub up to 50cm high with reddish tangled stems.
Flowers: Mauve to blue 4mm long tubular, irregularly 4-lobed and in terminal panicles on erect stalks.
Flowering: September-January.
Fruit: A tiny nut 2-3mm long with a fringe of silky hairs.
Leaves: A tangled mass of grass-like leaves 8-16cm long, needle-like, channelled on their upper side and growing from prostrate stems.
Habitat: Damp heathland and dry sclerophyll forest.
Features: Tangled masses of grass-like stems. Clusters of tiny pale mauve-blue flowers.
Name:
Conospermum
From Latin = cone-seed (referring to the tufts of hair on its seeds)
tenuifolium From Latin = thin-leaved
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Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Tubular/Bell-shaped, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
Blue, Mauve |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
Few |
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Flowering Month |
1, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Other |
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Colour |
Brown |
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Other Features |
Hairy |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate, Crowded |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Linear, Strap-like |
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Length |
Medium |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
- |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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