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Thysanotus elatior
Thysanotus elatior is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae and is endemic to north-western Australia. It is a perennial herb with a small rootstock, leaves produced annually, and panicles of purple flowers with broadly egg-shaped to elliptic fringed petals, lance-shaped sepals and six stamens.
This species of Thysanotus mostly grows in grasslands on sandy soils, sometimes in woodland, and is restricted to the Kimberley region of northern Western Australia and the Top End of the Northern Territory.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thysanotus elatior 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.
