{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Speciesbox |image = |image2 = |image_caption = |status = |status_system = DECF |status_ref = <ref name=WA/> |genus = Conostylis |species = argentea |authority = (J.W.Green) Hopper<ref name=APNI/><ref name=hopper>Hopper, S.D. (1987) in George, A.S. (ed.) Appendix: ''Conostylis''. Flora of Australia 45: 459.</ref> |range_map = Conostylis argentea DistMap42.png |range_map_caption = Occurrence data from AVH

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'''''Conostylis argentea''''' is a rhizomatous, tufted perennial plant species in the family Haemodoraceae, endemic to the south-west of Western Australia.<ref name=WA/> In July and August it produces white to cream flowers in the species' native range.<ref name=WA>{{FloraBase|name= ''Conostylis argentea''|id=1422 }}</ref>

==Description== According to FloraBase, the terete leaves are 8 to 13&nbsp;cm long and about 1&nbsp;mm wide. The leaves have neither bristles nor hairs on the leaf margin nor the surface of the leaf,<ref name=WA/> but according to Flora of Australia online, the leaves are flat and villous (covered in long soft hairs).<ref name=foa/> There is no scape. The inflorescence is subtended by a bract 10–12&nbsp;mm long, with one flower. The floral bracts are 10–12&nbsp;mm long and have sessile pedicels. The radially symmetric flowers are 35–65&nbsp;mm long, with hairy perianths, are white to cream, with six roughly equal tepals. There are six stamens, all at one level, having filaments which are 7–8&nbsp;mm long. The anthers have no appendages and are 5.5-5.7&nbsp;mm long. The style is 25–38&nbsp;mm long. The plant flowers in July/August.<ref name=WA/>

==Distribution== It is found in the Coolgardie, Avon Wheatbelt, Mallee and Esperance plains IBRA bioregion(s), in the South-west Botanical Province.<ref name=WA/>

==Taxonomy== It was first described in 1961 by John Green as a subspecies, ''Conostylis androstemma'' subsp. ''argentea''.<ref name=apni3>{{APNI2|id-77301|name=''Conostylis androstemma'' subsp. ''argentea''}}</ref><ref name=green>Green, J.W. (1961), The Genus Conostylis R.Br. II. Taxonomy. ''Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales'' 85(3): 367.</ref> In 1987, Stephen Hopper raised it to species status as ''Conostylis argentea''.<ref name=APNI>{{APNI2|name=''Conostylis argentea''|id=77308|accessdate=18 January 2019}}</ref><ref name=hopper/>

==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=foa>{{Flora of Australia Online |id=57596 |name=''Conostylis argentea'' (J.W.Green) Hopper }}</ref> }}

==External links== *[http://esperancewildflowers.blogspot.com/search/label/Haemodoraceae%20-%20Conostylis ''Conostylis'' Esperance Wildflowers] (Photographs & descriptions of six ''Conostylis'' species, including ''C. argentea'') {{Taxonbar|from=Q15357388}}

Category:Commelinales of Australia Category:Angiosperms of Western Australia Category:Plants described in 1961 Category:Taxa named by Stephen Hopper argentea

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