Family: Dasypogonaceae
Calectasia cyanea
Citation:
R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 263 (1810) var. intermedia (Sonder) Anway, Aust. J. Bot. 17:158 (1969).
Synonymy: C. intermedia Sonder, Linnaea 28:222 (1856).
Common name: Blue tinsel-lily.
Description:
More or less pubescent shrub, 30-50 cm high; leaves erect, crowded, almost pungent, very short.
Flowers solitary at the end of the short branches, blue or purple, with a metallic sheen, the narrow tube 7-12 mm long, the rigid spreading lobes 10-15 mm long; anthers yellow.
Distribution:
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Apparently rare in sandy heaths.
Vic.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Sept. — Oct.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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