Conospermum brachyphyllum

Conospermum brachyphyllum 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 thread-like leaves, and panicles of woolly, white flowers.

Description
Conospermum brachyphyllum is an open shrub that typically grows to a height of 1 m. It has ascending, thread-like leaves, 22–55 mm long and 0.4–0.75 mm wide. The flowers are arranged in a panicle of spikes on a peduncle 15–80 mm long with bluish-brown bracteoles 2.5–4 mm long and 1.8–3 mm wide with a woolly base. The flowers are white, forming a tube 3–9 mm long, the upper lip egg-shaped, 2–3 mm long and 0.8–1.3 mm wide, the lower lip joined for 1.5–2.8 mm long with lobes 0.3–0.7 mm long. Flowering occurs from August to October.

Taxonomy
Conospermum brachyphyllum was first formally described in 1839 by John Lindley in his A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony. The specific epithet (brachyphyllum) means "short-leaved".

Distribution
This species of Conospermum grows in sand over laterite or in gravel between Moora and Geraldton in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.