Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Blandfordia nobilis

Flowers and early pods. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer A McWhirter, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering plants. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, unknown site

Common name

Christmas Bells

Family

Blandfordiaceae

Where found

Sloping sandstone country and swampy areas. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands, north of Tabourie Lake.

Notes

Tufted perennial herb. Scape to about 0.80 m high. Leaves crowded at the base of the stem, to 75 cm long, to 5 mm wide, channelled, keeled, margins straight and slightly thickened, and scalloped and rough, or smooth. Flowers usually 20–30 mm long, 5-10 mm in diameter, brownish red with 6 yellow lobes. Tube narrowed in the lower third, expanded and more or less cylindrical above. Anthers 2–2.8 mm long. Flowers in loose clusters, 3–20-flowered. Flowering: late spring to summer.

Intermediates between Blandfordia grandiflora and Blandfordia nobilis occur where their ranges overlap.

Protected NSW.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Blandfordia~nobilis  (accessed 5 January, 2021)