{{Short description|Species of shrub native to Australia}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2024}} {{Speciesbox |genus = Conospermum |species = multispicatum |authority = E.M.Benn.<ref name="APC">{{cite web |title=''Conospermum multispicatum'' |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/156074 |publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=3 October 2024}}</ref> }}

'''''Conospermum multispicatum''''' is a species of flowering plant of the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a dense, rounded shrub with glabrous leaves that are round in cross section, spikes of woolly hairy, white flowers and woolly hairy nuts.

==Description== ''Conospermum multispicatum'' is a dense, rounded shrub that typically grows to a height of up to {{cvt|1|m}}. Its leaves are glabrous, round or four-angled in cross section, {{cvt|9–25|mm}} long and {{cvt|0.5–0.75|mm}} wide, with a raised midvein on the lower surface. The flowers are arranged in spikes of up to 12 in upper leaf axils on a peduncle {{cvt|10–20|mm}} long with densely hairy, woolly white bracteoles {{cvt|1.5–2.0|mm}} long and {{cvt|1.25–2|mm}} wide. The perianth is white and densely covered with woolly hairs, and forms a tube {{cvt|4.5–5.5|mm}} long. The upper lip is {{cvt|0.7–1.25|mm}} long and densely covered with woolly white hairs, the lower lip joined for {{cvt|0.5–0.8|mm}} with oblong lobes {{cvt|0.5–0.6|mm}} long and {{cvt|0.25–0.4|mm}} wide. Flowering occurs from August to October, and the fruit is a hairy nut {{cvt|2.0–2.4|mm}} long and {{cvt|2.0–2.5|mm}} wide covered with golden-fawn, woolly hairs.<ref name="FoA">{{cite web |last1=Bennett |first1=Eleanor M. |title=''Conospermum multispicatum'' |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Conospermum%20multispicatum |publisher=Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra |access-date=3 October 2024}}</ref><ref name=FB>{{FloraBase | name = ''Conospermum multispicatum'' | id = 16848}}</ref>

==Taxonomy== ''Conospermum multispicatum'' was first formally described in 1995 by Eleanor Marion Bennett in the ''Flora of Australia'', from specimens she collected near the Toolibin – Tincurrin road in 1985.<ref name="FoA" /><ref name="APNI">{{cite web |title=''Conospermum multispicatum'' |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/8068997|publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |access-date=3 October 2024}}</ref> The specific epithet (''multispicatum'') means 'many spikes'.<ref name="ASG">{{cite book |last1=George |first1=Alex |last2=Sharr |first2=Francis |title=Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings |date=2021 |publisher=Four Gables Press |location=Kardinya, WA |isbn=9780958034180 |pages=256–257 |edition=4th}}</ref>

==Distribuion and habitat== This species of ''Conospermum'' is found on gentle slopes and flats along the west coast in the Avon Wheatbelt and Jarrah Forest bioregions of Western Australia where it grows in sandy or clay soils.<ref name=FB/> It has been recorded from near Toolibin, Woodanilling, Wagin and the Stirling Ranges.<ref name="FoA" />

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Category:Eudicots of Western Australia multispicatum Category:Endemic flora of Western Australia Category:Plants described in 1995