Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Philydrum lanuginosum
Common name
Woolly Waterlily, Frogsmouth
Family
Philydraceae
Where found
Along margins of streams and dams, drainage areas, swamps, and in water. Coastal.
Notes
Emergent perennial herb to 2 m or more high, often shortly rhizomatous. Leaves mostly basal, a few alternating up the stems, 15–60 cm long, to 20 mm wide, linear, surfaces mostly hairy, sometimes hairless, basal sheath 7–16 cm long, tips gradually tapering to a point. Flowers yellow, with 4 'petals', the outer 2 'petals' 10–15 mm long, 7–10 mm wide; the inner 2 'petals' 3-8 mm long, 1-3 mm wide. Flowers in a spike of 10 to about 40-flowers, usually only 2 flowers open at any time. Flowers Dec.–Apr..
Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Philydrum~lanuginosum (accessed 17 January, 2021)
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