Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Tricoryne simplex
Common name
None
Family
Hemerocallideae
Where found
Wet forest and heath. Coast and ranges north from Jervis Bay.
Notes
Perennial herb to about 0.3 m high, rhizomatous. Flowering stems rarely branched, usually angular and hairless. Leaves basal, 6–25 cm long, 1–5 mm wide, surfaces hairless or rough. Flowers yellow, with 6 'petals' each 5–9 mm long. Stamen filaments with a tuft of long hairs below the anthers. 'Petals' spirally twisted after the flowers have been pollinated. Flowers in clusters of 6–20-flowers or more, often appearing single. Flowering: August–December.
Family Anthericaceae in PlantNET.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Tricoryne~simplex (accessed 27 April 2021)
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