Mallee Fringe-lily
Flower Opening Back
Mallee Fringe-lily
Darker Flower Open
| Mallee Fringe-lily Flower Opening Back | | Mallee Fringe-lily Darker Flower Open | | ||
 | Class: | Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) | |||
| Order: | Asparagus (Asparagales) | ||||
| Family: | Asparagus (Asparagaceae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Mallee Fringe-lily (Thysanotus baueri) | ||||
| This Photo: | Flower Open | ||||
| Other name: | Fringed Violet | ||||
Thank you Ralph Foster & Alan Dandie for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Riverland and elsewhere A small single stemmed herb. Leaves are like grass and die off early. While the flowers look as though they have 6 petals, in actual fact they have 3 striped sepals (paler and thinner) and 3 striped petals. The strange petals with tassels (fimbriae - latin for fringes) are lilac in colour. The flowers ONLY LAST A FEW HOURS! So we was very popular when we saw a lot of them about 100m from the car and we said "I'll photograph those tomorrow"; because we was tired at the time. It's quite bizarre when you realise there were 20+ plants all flowering at the same time, just for that one day. Fortunately; another 5 popped up in the same area later and we was able to redeem myself Similar Species: Twining Fringe-lily (Thysanotus patersonii) | |||||
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