Conostylis argentea (J.Green) Hopper

Leaves flat, 7-25 cm long, 0.7-1.6 mm wide, silvery, villous. Pedicels 2-12 mm long; bracts 10-25 mm long, 2-4 mm wide. Perianth 35-65 mm long, grey-cream, sometimes suffused with purple; tube usually curved; lobes 14-22 mm long, often reflexed. Filaments 4.5-10 mm long; anthers 3.5-6.5 mm long, cream. Style 35-60 mm long. Ovules few, pendulous from a peltate placenta.

Grows in sandy loam in mallee heath and (at inland localities) on rocky hills beneath scrub.