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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Amaryllidaceae
Calostemma luteum

Citation: Sims, Curtis's Bot. Mag. 46:t. 2101 (1819).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Yellow garland lily.

Description:
Bulb globular, to 6 cm diam., covered with thin brown tunics; leaves linear, developing to some length after the flowering and 4-8 mm broad.

Scape cylindrical, 14-45 cm high; flowers 8-20 in the umbel, yellow, on pedicels to 25 mm long, the whole perianth 20-25 mm long, of which the tube occupies about half; bracts 3, 2-3 cm long, longer than the pedicels.

Capsule c. 1 cm diam.

Published illustration: Williams (1980) Native plants of Queensland, p. 55.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: LE, GT, FR, MU.   Qld; N.S.W.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: April, May and Sept.


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