Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Tricoryne elatior

Flower. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, between Gunning and Collector

Flowering and seeding stems. Photographer Don Wood, Ben Boyd National Park, north of Eden

Common name

Yellow autumn-lily, Yellow Rush-lily

Family

Hemerocallideae

Where found

Forest, woodland, heath, grassland, and swamps. Widespread.

Notes

Perennial herb to 1 m high or sprawling, with several branching stems, rhizomatous. Flowering stems wiry, cylindrical and slightly grooved, surface sometimes rough or with rough hairs at the base. Basal leaves 3–10 cm long, 1–4 mm wide, withering early. Leaves on the upper stems reduced and scale-like. Flowers yellow, sometimes white, with 6 'petals', each 5–14 mm long. Flowers in open clusters of 2–10 flowers, rarely more than 20, often appearing single because the flowers in the cluster open one after the other. Stamen filaments with a tuft of long hairs below the anthers. 'Petals' spirally twisted after the flowers have been pollinated. Flowering: most of the year.

Family Anthericaceae in PlantNET. Family Asphodelaceae in VICFLORA.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Tricoryne~elatior (accessed 27 April 2021)