Conostylis canteriata 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 stilted roots, flat leaves, and pale lemon-yellow tubular flowers.
Conostylis canteriata is a rhizomatous, tufted, perennial, grass-like plant or herb wide, and has stilted roots descending from the stem up to above the soil. The stems are long, the leaves long and wide. The flowers are on a spherical, many-flowered head on a flowering stalk long with leafy, glabrous bracts at the base. The perianth is pale lemon-yellow and long with six more or less equal tepals, the inner segments long. There are six stamens and the style is long. Flowering occurs from May to August.[1]
Conostylis canteriata was first formally described in 1987 by Stephen Hopper in the Flora of Australia.[2] [3] The specific epithet (canteriata) means "supported on a prop", referring to the roots.[4]
This conostylis usually grows in disturbed habitats in low heath mainly from Green Head to the Irwin River in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.[1]