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Haemodorum flaviflorum W.Fitzg.

Reference
J.Roy.Soc.Western Australia 3:128 (1918)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Scientific Description

Leaves round (leaves terete), 300-410 mm long, 0.8-1.5 mm wide; bristles or hairs on the leaf margin absent; hairs on the surface of the leaf absent (leaf surfaces glabrous). Scape absent. Inflorescence subtended by a bract 9.5-10 mm long, with several flowers; floral bracts 2-2.5 mm long; pedicels present, 1.5-5.5 mm long; flowers 4.7-5.5 mm long. Perianth glabrous, radially symmetrical, uniformly coloured, yellow, clearly with three inner and three outer tepals, the inner segments 3-4 mm long. Stamens three, in one level; filaments 1.4-2 mm long; anther 2-2.2 mm long, without an appendage. Style 3.7-4.5 mm long. Flowers in March, April or May. Occurs in the Northern Kimberley IBRA bioregion(s), of the Northern Botanical Province.

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 18 January 2020

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Northern Kimberley.
IBRA Subregions
Berkeley, Mitchell.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Derby-West Kimberley, Wyndham-East Kimberley.