Conospermum toddii, commonly known as Victoria Desert smokebush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to inland areas of Western Australia. It is a spreading shrub with thread-like leaves, panicles of white, tube-shaped flowers and hairy nuts.
Conospermum toddii is a spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of and has S-shaped, thread-like leaves, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in panicles with few branches in the axils of upper leaves, with kidney-shaped to broadly egg-shaped bracteoles long, about wide and hairy. The flowers are white, forming a tube long, the upper lobe broadly triangular, long and wide, the lower lobe up to long and long. Flowering occurs from July to Octrober, and the fruit is a nut about long and wide with white hairs.[1]
Conospermum toddii was first formally described in 1876 by Ferdinand von Mueller in his Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected near Queen Victoria Spring by Jess Young.[2] [3] The specific epithet (toddii) honours Charles Todd.[4]
This species of Conospermum grows in sand on sand dunes in the region to the east of Kalgoorlie in the Coolgardie, Great Victoria Desert and Murchison bioregions of Western Australia.
Conospermum toddii is listed as "Priority Four" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, meaning that it is rare or near threatened.[5]