Conostylis dielsii
Conostylis dielsii is a tufted perennial, grass-like plant or herb in the family Haemodoraceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It forms short rhizomes, and has cylindrical leaves and creamy-yellow flowers.
Description
Conostylis dielsii is a tufted perennial, grass-like plant or herb that forms short rhizomes and typically grows to high. The leaves are round in cross-section, long and wide and glabrous, apart from woolly hairs at the base. The flowers are arranged in dense cymes or heads on a hairy flowering stalk long with leaf-like bracts long. The perianth is creamy-yellow, long with lobes long. The anthers are long and the style long. Flowering occurs in July and August.Taxonomy and naming
Conostylis dielsii was first formally described in 1903 by William Vincent Fitzgerald in the Journal and Proceedings of the Mueller Botanic Society of Western Australia from a specimen collected near Mingenew by Ludwig Diels. The specific epithet honours the collector of the type specimens.In 1987, Stephen Hopper described two subspecies of C. dielsii in the Flora of Australia, and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:Conostylis dielsii W.Fitzg. subsp. dielsii has leaves long and wide, the flowering stalk long.Conostylis dielsii subsp. teres Hopper has leaves long and less than wide, the flowering stalk long.