Conostylis breviscapa


Conostylis breviscapa is a rhizomatous, tufted perennial, grass-like plant or herb in the family Haemodoraceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has flat leaves and yellow, hairy, tubular flowers.

Description

Conostylis breviscapa is a tufted, perennial, grass-like plant or herb or multi-stemmed plant forming clumps wide and up to high. The leaves are flat, typically long and wide with feather-like hairs on the edges. The flower stem is up to long, each flower on a pedicel long. The flowers are long and the perianth is yellow with six more or less equal tepals, the inner segments long. There are six stamens and the style is long. Flowering occurs from August to December or January.

Taxonomy and naming

Conostylis breviscapa was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen. The specific epithet means "short stalk".

Distribution and habitat

This conostylis grows in mallee in sandy soil between Jerdacuttup and near Esperance in the Esperance Plains bioregion of southern Western Australia.