Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Thelionema umbellatum

Flower. Photographer Richard Hartland, Wilsons Promontary, Vic

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Gundaroo, between Goulburn and Yass

Common name

Lemon Flax Lily

Family

Hemerocallidaceae

Where found

Forest, heath, and shrubland, often in moist places. Ranges and tablelands. Coastal south of Eden and north of Lake Tabourie.

Notes

Perennial herb to about 0.4 m high. Leaves alternating up the stems, appearing basal, 12–35 cm long, 1–5 mm wide, with several prominent rounded veins on the lower surface. Flowers with 6 white or cream 'petals', each 4.3–9 mm long. Flowers in open branched clusters shorter than or barely longer than the leaves. Flowers Spring to Summer.

Hybridizes with Thelionema caespitosum.

Family Phormiaceae in NSW. Family Asphodelaceae in Vic.

Rare Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Thelionema~umbellatum (accessed 14 April 2021)