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Conostylis festucacea Endl. subsp. festucacea

Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Rhizomatous, tufted or proliferous perennial, grass-like or herb, 0.18-0.4 m high, leaves subterete to almost flat. Fl. yellow, Sep to Oct. Sand, sandy clay. Winter-wet depressions.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 28 April 2000

Scientific Description

Leaves round (leaves terete) or elliptical (leaves compressed), 80-210 mm long, 1-2 mm wide; bristles or hairs on the leaf margin absent; hairs on the surface of the leaf absent (leaf surfaces glabrous). Scape present, hairy, 95-200 mm long. Inflorescence subtended by a bract 7-20 mm long, with several flowers; floral bracts 5-7 mm long; pedicels present, 1.5-2 mm long; flowers 10-15 mm long. Perianth hairy, radially symmetrical, uniformly coloured, yellow, with six more or less equal tepals, the inner segments 6-10 mm long. Stamens six, in one level; filaments 1-2.5 mm long; anther 2.5-5 mm long, without an appendage. Style 7.5-10 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, Perth.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Armadale, Canning, Dandaragan, Gingin, Gosnells, Moora, Swan.