Conospermum taxifolium

Erect shrub to c. 1 m high; branches hoary-tomentose, glabrescent. Leaves crowded, erect or spreading, linear, narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblanceolate, 5–30 mm long, mostly 1.5–3 mm wide, often twisted, green, both surfaces usually glabrous; apex acute, aristate. Inflorescence a terminal or upper-axillary corymbose panicle, mostly 1–3 cm across; common peduncles ascending, mostly 1–3 cm long, not significantly longer than branches of inflorescence; flowers arranged in short, dense, pedunculate spikes, each flower sessile, subtended by a blue-grey, persistent bract c. 3 mm long; perianth tubular at base, splitting c. two-thirds of the way up; tepals 6–7 mm long, white or cream, moderately hairy; ovary comose at apex, also ringed by basal hairs. Nut 2–3 mm long, hairy. Flowers Aug.–Nov.