Citation: Labill., Nov. Holl. Pl. Sp. 1:14 (1805).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Tall yellow-eye.

Description:
Perennial, with slender scapes, 30-50 cm high; leaves linear, with shining brown sheaths.

Flowerhead ovoid or globular, 8-12 mm long, the bracts broad and almost black; calyx-segments stiff, brown, boat-shaped, the broad anterior caducous one embracing the corolla, the 2 lateral ones with a rigid keel ciliate or fringed at the summit, all 5-6 mm long and nearly as long as the flowering bracts; corolla much exceeding the calyx, its lobes conspicuous, yellow, ovate.

Capsule enclosed in the 2 persistent lateral calyx-segments, obtuse, 3-lobed, hardened and circumsciss near the summit.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: SL, KI, SE.   All States except W.Aust. and the N.T. Conservation status: native Flowering time: in summer.

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

Biology: No text

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