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Thysanotus brachiatus

Family
Asparagaceae (Asparagus family)
Grows as
Annual, Perennial
Native range
SSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Thysanotus brachiatus is a species of flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family, and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a leafless, rhizomatous, perennial herb, with more or less annual stems, umbels of up to eight purple flowers with elliptic, fringed petals, very narrowly linear sepals, six stamens and a curved style.

Where it grows

This species grows in sandplain vegetation in deep sandy soils in the Ravensthorpe area and south to Hopetoun in the Esperance Plains, Mallee and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Other Thysanotus plants

Fringe Lilies · Thysanotus acerosifolius · Thysanotus anceps · Thysanotus arbuscula · Thysanotus arenarius · Thysanotus asper · Thysanotus banksii · Mallee Fringe Lily · Thysanotus brachyantherus · Thysanotus brevifolius · Chinese Fringe Lily · Thysanotus cymosus

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thysanotus brachiatus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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