''Conospermum boreale'' is a species of flowering plant in the family

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and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, much-branched shrub with egg-shaped to elliptic or lance-shaped leaves, and

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s of woolly, white flowers.

Description

''Conospermum boreale'' is an erect, compact shrub with many branches, that typically grows to a height of . It has egg-shaped to elliptic, or lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base long and wide with the midvein and 2 side veins more or less prominent. The flowers are woolly and white, arranged in panicles, the flowers forming a tube long. The upper lip is long, the lower lip joined for long with narrowly oblong to oblong lobes long. Flowering occurs from August to November.

Taxonomy

''Conospermum boreale'' was first formally described in 1995 by Eleanor Marion Bennett in the Flora of Australia from specimens she collected south of Kalbarri in 1987. The

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(''boreale'') means "northern". In the same volume of the ''Flora of Australia'', Bennett described ''Conospermum boreale'' subsp. ''ascendens'', and its name and the name of the autonym are accepted by the Australian Plant Census: * ''Conospermum boreale'' subsp. ''ascendens'' has ascending leaves. * ''Conospermum boreale'' subsp. ''boreale'' has soft, spreading leaves.

Distribution and habitat

This species of ''Conospermum'' is found between Kalbarri and Badgingarra, sometimes as far south as Perth, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Geraldton Sandplains and

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bioregions of south-western Western Australia where it grows in sand or laterite. Subspecies ''ascendens'' is found as far north as

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and subsp. ''borealis'' is found as far south as Perth.

Conservation status

Both subspecies of ''C. boreale'' are listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia

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References

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Endemic flora of Western Australia Plants described in 1995