Conostylis tomentosa 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 with bristles of hairs on the leaf margins, and golden yellow, tubular flowers.
Conostylis tomentosa is a rhizomatous, tufted, perennial grass-like plant or herb that typically grows to a height of up to . It has flat leaves up to long, wide and densely hairy with greyish-white woolly hairs up to long. The flowers are long and borne on a flowering stem up to long, the flowers golden yellow with lobes long. The anthers are long and the style is long. Flowering occurs from July to August.[1] [2]
Conostylis tomentosa was first formally described in 1987 by Stephen Hopper in the Flora of Australia, from specimens he collected north-north-west of the Eneabba - Three Springs turnoff along the Brand Highway in 1986.[3] The specific epithet (tomentosa) means "tomentose".[4]
This conostylis grows in sand in heath in between Eneabba and Arrowsmith in the Geraldton Sandplains bioregion of south-western Western Australia.[1]
Conostylis tomentosa is listed as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.