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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Colchicaceae
Wurmbea uniflora

Citation: T. Macfarl., Brunonia 3:194 (1980).

Synonymy: Anguillaria uniflora R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 273 (1810).

Common name: None

Description:
Plants 4-17 cm to the top of the inflorescence; lowest leaf basal, narrowly linear, 1.5-3.5 mm broad; second leaf attached higher, dilated at the base, narrowly linear or tapering above.

Flower 1, occasionally 2, bisexual, white, often pinkish when old, nectaries white; perianth-segments 5-7 mm long, only just connate at the base; nectaries 2 per perianth-segment, consisting of 2 distinct marginal shelf-like thickenings, situated at or above one-third from the base of the segment; anthers yellow.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: SL, SE.   N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Sept. — Jan.


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

Biology: This species has been found only once in S.Aust., at Clarendon, on black moist soil near the Onkaparinga River, on 28.x. 1881, so it may now be extinct in this State. However, it could occur in other habitats like woodland as it does in western Vic.

Author: Not yet available


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