Conostylis teretifolia J.W.Green

Tufts to 25 cm diam.; stems short. Leaves flat or terete, grooved, 6-17 cm long, 0.5-1.1 mm wide, bearing spreading white hairs 2-6 mm long. Inflorescence capitate, few-flowered; scape 3.5-11 cm long, ±equal to leaves, sometimes bearing a median leafy bract 3-16 mm long. Perianth 7-11 mm long with yellow or reddish indumentum of branched hairs outside, woolly-tomentose inside; lobes 5-9 mm long. Stamens uniseriate; filaments 2 mm long; anthers 1.3-3.2 mm long. Style 4-7 mm long, slightly exceeding anthers; placenta bearing several reflexed ovules from underside.