Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Calostemma purpureum
Garland Lily
Amaryllidaceae
Woodland, shrubland, along watercourses and on seasonally flooded clay flats, and in rocky sites. Western Slopes.
Perennial herb, shooting annually from a bulb, flower stalks to 0.6 m tall. Leaves basal, 10-60 cm long, 4-18 mm wide, flat. Flowers purple to reddish purple, golden to greenish yellow, sometimes pink, rarely white, often yellow or pink near the base, tubular lower down, funnel-shaped higher up, the tube 5–13 mm long; with 6 lobes each 9–21 mm long, in clusters of 8-30 flowers at the top of the flower stalk.
Calostemma luteum is included in Calostemma purpureum in NSW.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Calostemma~purpureum
(accessed 13 April 2021)
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