''Conostylis bealiana'' is a flowering plant in the family

Haemodoraceae Haemodoraceae is a family of perennial herbaceous flowering plants with 14 genera and 102 known species. It is sometimes known as the "bloodwort family". Primarily a Southern Hemisphere family, they are found in South Africa, Australia and New ...

and is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to Western Australia. It has green flat leaves and tubular dark yellow to orange-red flowers.

Description

''Conostylis bealiana'' is a tufted, prostrate, grass-like perennial, high and forming clumps up to wide. The leaves are green, hairy on both surfaces, flat, soft, flexible, long, wide with fine, flattened hairs on the leaf margins. The flowers are borne singly, straight, hairy, yellow to orange-red, long,

bracts In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are usually different from foliage leaves. They may be smaller, larger, or of ...

long, lobes long on a

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long. Flowering occurs from July to September.

Taxonomy and naming

''Conostylis bealiana'' was first formally described in 1875 by

Ferdinand von Mueller Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (german: Müller; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Vict ...

and the description was published in '' Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae''. The

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

(''bealiana'') is in honour of Amy Beal.

Distribution and habitat

This conostylis grows in gravel, sand and sandy loam on the south coast of Western Australia.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15333606 Commelinales of Australia Angiosperms of Western Australia Plants described in 1875 Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller bealiana