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Conostylis festucacea subsp. filifolia (F.Muell.) Hopper

Reference
Fl.Australia 45:460 (1987)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Rhizomatous, tufted or proliferous perennial, grass-like or herb, 0.13-0.4 m high, leaves terete. Fl. yellow, Sep to Oct. White or yellow sand. Winter-wet depressions, sandplain.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 28 April 2000

Scientific Description

Leaves round (leaves terete), 290-360 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide; bristles or hairs on the leaf margin absent; hairs on the surface of the leaf absent (leaf surfaces glabrous). Scape present, hairy, 55-90 mm long. Inflorescence subtended by a bract 12-14 mm long, with several flowers; floral bracts 4-5.5 mm long; pedicels present, 1-2 mm long; flowers 8-11 mm long. Perianth hairy, radially symmetrical, uniformly coloured, yellow, with six more or less equal tepals, the inner segments 6-7 mm long. Stamens six, in one level; filaments 1-1.2 mm long; anther 3.5-3.8 mm long, without an appendage. Style 7-8 mm long. Flowers in September or October. Occurs in the Geraldton Sandplains, Swan Coastal Plain and Avon Wheatbelt IBRA bioregion(s), of the South-west Botanical Province.

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 18 January 2020

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Dandaragan Plateau, Katanning, Lesueur Sandplain.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Coorow, Dandaragan, Moora.