Citation: R. Br. in Sturt, Exped. Centr. Aust., Bot. App. 79 (1849).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Butterfly bush, slender petaloslylis.

Description:
Erect shrub, 2-3 m high; stems often pruinose; tomentum of sparse minute appressed simple hairs; leaflets 5-15, lanceolate-elliptic, mucronate.

Flowers 1-5, in short racemes, each with a pair of linear bracts; sepals 5, acute; petals 5, obovate, shortly clawed, deep-yellow, 1 marked with red; style yellow, winged, petal-like.

Pod flat, obliquely oblong, elastically deshiscent; seeds 4-6, shining, mottled light- and dark-brown, with a small cap-like aril.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 383.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: LE, FR, EA.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: in early summer, Sept. — Nov.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

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