Common name: Grass Lily
Murdannia graminea (R.Br.) G.Brückn. APNI* Synonyms: Aneilema graminea R.Br. APNI*
Description: Erect, slender perennial herb with thick, tuberous roots; stems ascending, 10–60 cm high.
Leaves mostly basal, with a few cauline; lamina linear, 5–30 cm long, 2–11 mm wide, usually scabrous-pubescent, apex acute; sheath short, 5–15 mm long, sometimes purplish, ciliate at the orifice.
Inflorescence a loose panicle 3–20 cm long; pedicels slender, 3–10 mm long. Outer tepals 6–8 mm long; inner tepals c. 10 mm long, blue or purplish (rarely white). Fertile stamens 3, filaments winged and bearded near the base; staminodes 3, filaments bearded.
Fruit ellipsoidal, 6–10 mm long, enclosed by the persistent sepals; seeds 4 or 5 in each loculus, grey-brown, angular, pitted.
Flowering: December–April
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in sclerophyll forest; north from Gundagai district.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, NT, NWS, CWS, SWS, NWP
Other Australian states: Qld W.A. N.T.
Text by Peter G. Wilson (1993); edited KL Wilson (Jan 2015)
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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