Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Crinum flaccidum
Common name
Darling Lily, Macquarie Lily, Murray Lily
Family
Amaryllidaceae
Where found
Near inland rivers, often along sandy floodways and on the beds of ephemeral streams. Western Slopes.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.9 m tall. Leaves basal, 30-80 cm long, 10-50 mm wide, limp, hairless, margins more or less rough. Flowers strongly scented, white or creamy to yellowish, tubular, the tube 20–120 mm long, with 6 'petals' each 30–100 mm long, in a cluster of 4–16 flowers at the top of the stem. Flowering: summer to early autumn.
Vulnerable Vic. Listed in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act Vic.
PlantNET description:
http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Crinum~flaccidum (accessed 8 January, 2021)
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