Conostylis laxiflora explained

Conostylis laxiflora 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, glabrous leaves, and yellow, tubular flowers.

Description

Conostylis laxiflora is a rhizomatous, tufted, perennial, grass-like plant or herb. It has flat leaves long, wide and glabrous, apart from bristles or hairs on the leaf margins. The flowers are borne in a loose cyme on a flowering stem long with a bract long subtending several flowers, each flower long on a pedicel long with floral bracts long at the base. The perianth is yellow, with six tepals long, the anthers long and the style long. Flowering occurs in October and November.[1]

Taxonomy and naming

Conostylis laxiflora was first formally described in 1873 by George Bentham in his Flora Australiensis from specimens collected by Augustus Oldfield near the Vasse River.[2] The specific epithet (laxiflora) means "open-flowered".[3]

Distribution and habitat

This conostylis grows in sandy soils near swamps and creeks forest and heath in the Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hopper . S.D . Purdie . R.W . George . A.S . Patrick . S.J . Conostylis hiemalis . Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment . 83–84 . 11 December 2023.
  2. Web site: Conostylis laxiflora Hopper . APNI. 11 December 2023.
  3. Book: Sharr . Francis Aubi . George . Alex . Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings . 2019 . Four Gables Press . Kardinya, WA . 9780958034180 . 236 . 3rd.