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Thysanotus triandrus, commonly known as three-stamened fringe lily is a species of flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family, and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a tufted perennial herb with a small rootstock, fibrous roots, narrowly lance-shaped to more or less linear, perennial leaves and an umbels of four to fifty purple flowers with lance-shaped sepals, elliptic fringed petals and three stamens with equal anthers.
Thysanotus triandrus grows in low Banksia forest on inland sandplain vegetation in deep white sand, sometimes with Eucalyptus staeri in dark, humus-rich sand. It occurs from Cockleshell Gully to Esperance and Israelite Bay, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
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 triandrus 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.
