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Thysanotus fastigiatus

Thysanotus fastigiatus
Photo: Tim Hammer, CC BY 4.0
Family
Asparagaceae (Asparagus family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
WSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Thysanotus fastigiatus is a species of flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family, and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a rhizomatous, perennial herb, with a few narrowly linear leaves, purple flowers arranged singly with narrowly lance-shaped sepals, elliptic, fringed petals, six stamens and an erect style.

Where it grows

This species grows in limestone gravel towards the top of the Darling Range in low eucalypt-banksia woodland east of Perth, in the Jarrah Forest 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 brachiatus · Thysanotus brachyantherus · Thysanotus brevifolius · Chinese Fringe Lily

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thysanotus fastigiatus 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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