Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Murdannia graminea
Common name
Grass Lily
Family
Commelinaceae
Where found
Forest. North from east of Picton.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.6 m high. Leaves mostly basal, a few alternating up the stems, 5–30 cm long, 2–11 mm wide, usually rough and hairy, tips pointed, basal sheath short, sometimes purplish, fringed at the opening. Flowers blue to mauve or purplish, rarely white, with 3 'petals' each about 10 mm long, and 3 coloured 'sepals' 6–8 mm long and much narrower. Flowers with 3 stamens that produce pollen and 3 stamens that do not produce pollen. Stamen filaments bearded. Flowers in a loose branched cluster 3–20 cm long, not enclosed in a spathe-like bract.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Murdannia~graminea (accessed 24 January, 2021)
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