Citation: Schldl., Linnaea 20:587 (1847).

Synonymy: Conospermum cucullatum Gand., Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 66:231 (1919); Conospermum helichrysoides Gand., Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 66:231 (1919).

Common name: Slender smoke-bush (or conosperm).

Description:
Shrub 0.2-2 m high; branchlets erect, white-pubescent; leaves widely spreading, distally upturned, linear to linear-oblanceolate, 7-25 X 0.7-1.5 rarely to 3.5 mm, glabrescent.

Inflorescences terminal or in the upper axils, corymbs of dense-flowered spikes each borne on an ebracteate peduncle 1-2 rarely to 4 cm long, arising from a common peduncle 5-20 cm long and with scattered subulate bracts; flower-subtending bracts 3-4.5 mm long, long-acuminate, pubescent; perianth 5-7 mm long, bilabiate, white, grey-blue or lilac, pubescent outside, the narrow tube as long as the bract, abruptly dilated into a hooded upper lip and 3-lobed lower lip.

Nut c. 2.5 mm diam., borne in a persistent bract, with marginal and central comas.

	twig
Image source: fig. 68 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

	opened flower
Image source: fig. 68 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

	flower with bract
Image source: fig. 68 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

	fruit
Image source: fig. 68 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  In sandy rarely clay soil in sclerophyllous shrubland or woodland. S.Aust.: EP, NL, MU, SL, KI, SE.   Western Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: April — Jan.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: Specimens from Fleurieu Peninsula tend to have long perianth tubes up to twice the length of the limb, while most from elsewhere have limb and tube more or less equal.

Author: Not yet available