Citation: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 283 (1810).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Mallee fringe-lily.

Description:
Tubers rather distant from the rootstock; leaves narrow-linear, much shorter than the inflorescence, withering early and leaving the oblong white membranous sheaths.

Inflorescences 15-30 cm tall, simple or branched once or twice towards the upper part; flowers in several sessile 2-5-flowered umbels; perianth-segments 8-10, rarely to 15 mm long, blue; stamens 6, 3 outer anthers yellow, straight, hardly twisted, c. 3.5 mm long; 3 inner anthers purple, curved, twisted, c. 6.5 mm long; ovary with 2 ovules per cell; pedicels rather shorter than the perianth, erect in flower and fruit; capsule c. 4 mm diam.

Published illustration: Leigh & Mulham (1965) Pastoral plants of the Riverine Plain, 36 -this plate is incorrectly identified in the text as T. tuberosus; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 186.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: LE, NU, GT, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI.   W.Aust. (not recorded recently); N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Oct. — Jan.

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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