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Thysanotus nudicaulis

Family
Asparagaceae (Asparagus family)
Grows as
Bulb, Perennial
Native range
S. Western Australia, SE. South Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Thysanotus nudicaulis is a species of flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family, and is native to Western Australia and South Australia. It is a perennial herb with tuberous roots, one or two terete to slightly angled leaves, a single umbel of up to four purple flowers with narrowly linear sepals, elliptic, fringed petals, six stamens and a curved style.

Where it grows

This species of Thysanotus grows in sandy heath with mallee eucalypts along the Great Australian Bight, from east of Ravensthorpe to Mount Ragged in the Cape Arid National Park in Western Australia, and at the southern tip of the Eyre Peninsula of South 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 nudicaulis 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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