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Thysanotus scaber is a species of flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family, and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a perennial herb with a small rootstock, cylindrical tubers, about four to six channnelled leaves and umbels of four to eight purple flowers with linear sepals, elliptic, fringed petals and six stamens.
This species of Thysanotus grows in jarrah-marri (Eucalyptus marginata - E. calophylla) forest or in marri-wandoo (E. calophylla - E. wandoo) forest, on the Darling Range from near Perth, east to York then to about 120 km (75 mi) south-south-east of Perth, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thysanotus scaber 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.
