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.
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]
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]
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]