Citation: Asch. & Graebner, Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. 3:522 (1906).

Synonymy: Genosiris fragilis Labill., Nov. Holl. Pl. Sp. 1:13 (1804); P. glauca R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 304 (1810).

Common name: Swamp iris, short purple-flag.

Description:
Perennial forming round clumps 30-50 cm high; leaves 3-6 per shoot, narrow-linear, rigidly erect, 20-55 cm long, 1-3 mm wide, deeply grooved, biconvex to terete, glabrous, pale-green to glaucous; apices more or less pungent.

Scape 4-20 cm long, striate, glabrous; spathe bracts lanceolate, 2.5-4.8 cm long, grooved, green becoming brownish in fruit, with a dark-brown scarious margin; floral tube 2.5-3.5 cm long, glabrous, slightly exserted; perianth pale-violet to blue-violet; outer segments obovate to rhomboid, 1.2-2.3 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide with thickened mid-veins; inner segments oblanceolate, 1-2 mm long; filaments 2-3 mm long; anthers 2-3 mm long; ovary glabrous; style shortly exceeding the stamens; stigma very shallowly lobed.

Capsule 2.5-3 cm long, apiculate; seeds c. 2.5 mm long, black, shiny, with a white waxy aril 1-2 mm long.

Published illustration: Galbraith (1977) Field guide to the wild flowers of south-east Australia, t. 2.

Distribution:  On wet heaths close to the coast. S.Aust.: SL, KI, SE.   Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Oct. — Dec.

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

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