Stypandra glauca
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Stypandra glauca, commonly known as the nodding blue lily,[1] is a flowering plant in the family Asphodelaceae. It is a rhizomatous perennial plant with blue lily-like flowers with yellow stamens. It is widespread across southern areas of Australia.
Description
Stypandra glauca is a perennial herb with flowering branches to Template:Cvt high and up to Template:Cvt wide at the base, becoming shrub-like and about Template:Cvt high when not flowering. The leaves are stiff, pale green to bluish, narrowly lance-shaped, stem-clasping in an alternate, opposite arrangement, and are up to 200 millimetres long. The drooping, blue flowers are borne in clusters at the end of stems, about Template:Cvt long, about Template:Cvt across, each petal about Template:Cvt long, prominent yellow anthers, pedicel thread-like and curved. Flowering occurs from July to November and the fruit is oblong to oval-shaped capsule, Template:Cvt long.[2][3]
Taxonomy and naming
Stypandra glauca was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown and the description was published in Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae.[4][5] The specific epithet (glauca) means "sea green" in reference to the foliage.[6]
Distribution and habitat
Nodding blue lily is a widespread species growing on a variety of soils including sand, granite, shale, limestone and clay sometimes in woodland or mostly in dry forest.[3][6]
Ingestion of flowering plants has been found to cause blindness in goats.[7]
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External links
- The Australasian Virtual Herbarium (AVH) – Occurrence data for Stypandra glauca
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- Asparagales of Australia
- Angiosperms of Western Australia
- Flora of South Australia
- Flora of Queensland
- Flora of New South Wales
- Flora of the Australian Capital Territory
- Flora of Victoria (state)
- Garden plants
- Plants described in 1810
- Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)
- Stypandra