Conostylis crassinerva
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| Conostylis crassinerva | |
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| Subspecies absens near Jurien Bay | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Commelinales |
| Family: | Haemodoraceae |
| Genus: | Conostylis |
| Species: | C. crassinerva |
| Binomial name | |
| Conostylis crassinerva | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
Conostylis crassinerva 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 and yellow tubular flowers that turn reddish as they age.
Conostylis crassinerva is a rhizomatous, tufted, perennial, grass-like plant or herb up to 15 cm (5.9 in) in diameter. The leaves are flat, 70–180 mm (2.8–7.1 in) long and 1–3 mm (0.039–0.118 in) wide and glabrous or with soft, feather-like hairs. The flowers are arranged in head-like clusters with many flowers on a flowering stalk 40–125 mm (1.6–4.9 in) long with leaf-like bracts at the base of each flower and 4, shorter bracts at the base of the inflorescence. The perianth is yellow, turning reddish as it ages, 7–12 mm (0.28–0.47 in) long with loosely woolly hairs on the outside and shortly woolly-hairy inside. The anthers are about 1 mm (0.039 in) long and the style 5.5–10 mm (0.22–0.39 in) long.[2][3]