Petrophile canescens, commonly known as conesticks,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia.

It is an erect shrub with pinnately-divided leaves and oval heads of hairy, white to pale cream-coloured flowers.

The flowers are arranged in sessile, oval heads 10–25 mm (0.39–0.98 in) long, sometimes in groups of up to four with hairy, triangular involucral bracts at the base.

Flowering occurs from September to January and the fruit is a nut, fused with others in an oval to spherical head 15–40 mm (0.59–1.57 in) long.

Brown's description was published in the Supplementum to his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.