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Family: Iridaceae
Gynandriris setifolia

Citation: Foster, Contr. Gray Herb. n.s. 114:40 (1936).

Synonymy: Iris setifolia L.f., Suppl. 99 ( 1782); Moraea xerospatha MacOwan ex Baker, Fl. Capens. 6:529 (1897); M. xerospatha MacOwan ex Baker var. monophylla J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 113 (1922).

Common name: Thread iris.

Description:
Dwarf perennial 4-20 cm high; corm c. 1 cm diam.; leaf usually solitary, basal, narrowlinear, tough, trailing, 20-60 cm long, 1-2 mm wide; stem 2-5 cm long with 2-7 cymes; spathes elliptic, acuminate, 2-4 cm long, subhyaline, prominently veined; perianth-segments spreading or slightly reflexed, 1.3-1.6 cm long, pale-lilac, often blotched or streaked with violet; outer segments spathulate, 5-8 mm wide, with a central orange mark; inner segments oblanceolate, c. 2 mm wide; filaments 3.5-6 mm long; anthers 2-4 mm long; style crests 4-8 mm long, pale-lilac.

Capsule to 1.5 cm long, with a dark thread-like persistent beak 7-10 mm long; seeds 1-1.5 mm long, matt, brown.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 192.

Distribution:  A locally abundant weed of dry pastures; also on roadsides and in native vegetation on a wide range of soils.

  W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.   Native to South Africa.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: Sept. — Nov.


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