{{Short description|Species of Australian shrub}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2024}} {{Speciesbox | image = Conospermum paniculatum.jpg | genus = Conospermum | species = paniculatum | authority =E.M.Benn.<ref name="APC">{{cite web |title=''Conospermum paniculatum'' |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/155583 |publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=8 October 2024}}</ref> }}
'''''Conospermum paniculatum''''' is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, much-branched shrub with spoon shaped to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and spikes of blue to pink, tube-shaped flowers, the fruit an urn-shaped nut.
==Description== ''Conospermum paniculatum'' is a spreading, open shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|0.3–1.25|m}}. It has spoon-shaped or very narrowly egg-shaped leaves, {{cvt|50–210|mm}} long and {{cvt|5–15|mm}} wide, with the narrower end towards the base. The flowers are arranged in racemose panicles up to {{cvt|115|cm}} long, with heads of 3 to 7 flowers. The heads are borne on a peduncle {{cvt|20–25|mm}} long with velvety white and rust-coloured hairs. The flowers are white to pale blue and form a tube {{cvt|2.0–3.5|mm}} long with narrowly oblong lobes {{cvt|1.75–3|mm}} long and {{cvt|0.75–1.0|mm}} wide. Flowering occurs in July and from September to November, and the fruit is a woolly hairy, urn-shaped nut about {{cvt|1.5|mm}} long and {{cvt|1.25|mm}} wide.<ref name=FB>{{FloraBase | name = ''Conospermum paniculatum'' | id = 16847}}</ref><ref name="FoA">{{cite web |last1=Bennett |first1=Eleanor M. |title=''Conospermum paniculatum'' |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Conospermum%20paniculatum |publisher=Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra |access-date=8 October 2024}}</ref>
==Taxonomy== ''Conospermum paniculatum'' was first formally described in 1995 by Eleanor Marion Bennett in the ''Flora of Australia'' from specimens she collected on the Scott River Road in 1985.<ref name="FoA" /><ref name="APNI">{{cite web |title=''Conospermum paniculatum'' |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/8068979|publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |access-date=8 October 2024}}</ref> The specific epithet (''paniculatum'') means 'paniculate'.<ref name="Sharr">{{cite book |last1=Sharr |first1=Francis Aubi |last2=George |first2=Alex |title=Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings |date=2019 |publisher=Four Gables Press |location=Kardinya, WA |isbn=9780958034180 |page=270 |edition=3rd}}</ref>
==Distribution and habitat== This species of ''Conospermum'' grows in swampy places, on plains and on slopes between Busselton and Scott River in the Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.<ref name="FB" /><ref name="FoA" />
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Category:Eudicots of Western Australia paniculatum Category:Endemic flora of Western Australia Category:Plants described in 1995