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Calectasia
Calectasia is a genus of about fifteen species of flowering plants in the family Dasypogonaceae and is endemic to south-western Australia. Plants is this genus are small, erect shrubs with branched stems covered by leaf sheaths. The flowers are star-shaped, lilac-blue to purple and arranged singly on the ends of short branchlets.
Calectasia species occur in the south-west of Western Australia and in the border areas between South Australia and Victoria. C. intermedia is only found in the latter region and the remaining species only in Western Australia. They occupy a variety of habitats, occasionally in seasonally swampy areas, but more usually in low heath or woodland on sand, or over laterite or granite.
Calectasia browneana · Blue tinsel lily · Elegant Tinsel Lily · Calectasia gracilis · Blue Tinsel Lily · Calectasia hispida · Blue Tinsel Lily · Calectasia keigheryi · Blue Tinsel Lily · Blue tinsel lily · Calectasia palustris · Calectasia pignattiana
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