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{{Short description|Species of plant}}
{{Speciesbox
|image = Stypandra glauca.jpg
|genus = Stypandra
|species = glauca
|authority = [[R.Br.]]<ref name="APC">{{cite web |title=''Stypandra glauca'' |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/85806 |publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=22 January 2023}}</ref>
|synonyms = ''Stypandra imbricata'' R.Br.
<br />''Stypandra grandiflora'' Lindl.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://florabase.dec.wa.gov.au/search/current/1260 |title=FloraBase Name Currency Search: Stypandra glauca R.Br. |access-date=2010-01-24 |archive-date=2012-10-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121008104408/http://florabase.dec.wa.gov.au/search/current/1260 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|range_map = StypandraglaucaDistributionMap.png
|range_map_caption = Occurrence data from [[Australasian Virtual Herbarium|AVH]]
}}

'''''Stypandra glauca''''', commonly known as the '''nodding blue lily''',<ref name="RBGS">{{cite web |last1=Wilson |first1=B.L |title=''Stypandra glauca'' |url=https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Stypandra~glauca |website=PlantNET-NSW flora online |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Sydney |access-date=22 January 2023}}</ref> is a flowering plant in the family [[Asphodelaceae]]. It is a [[rhizome|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 {{cvt|30|cm}} high and up to {{cvt|1|m}} wide at the base, becoming shrub-like and about {{cvt|1.5|m}} 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 {{cvt|14|mm}} long, about {{cvt|20-30|mm}} across, each petal about {{cvt|15|mm}} long, prominent yellow anthers, [[pedicel (botany)|pedicel]] thread-like and curved. Flowering occurs from July to November and the fruit is oblong to oval-shaped capsule, {{cvt|8-12|mm}} long.<ref name="NPSR">{{cite book |last1=Fairley |first1=Alan |last2=Moore |first2=Philip |title=Native Plants of the Sydney Region |date=2010 |publisher=Jacana Books |isbn=978-1-74175-571-8|page=540}}</ref><ref name="COSGROVE">{{cite book |last1=Cosgrove |first1=Meredith |title=Photographic Guide to Native Plants of the Australian Capital Territory |date=2014 |publisher=Meadow Argus |isbn=9780994183408 |page=220}}</ref>

==Taxonomy and naming==
''Stypandra glauca'' was first formally described in 1810 by [[R.Br.|Robert Brown]] and the description was published in ''[[Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae]]''.<ref name="APNI">{{cite web |title=''Stypandra glauca'' |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/504763 |publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |access-date=26 January 2023}}</ref><ref name="BHL">{{cite book |last1=Brown |first1=Robert |title=Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805 |date=1810 |location=London |page=279 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/21871#page/147/mode/1up}}</ref> The [[binomial nomenclature|specific epithet]] (''glauca'') means "sea green" in reference to the foliage.<ref name="ANBG">{{cite web |last1=Hurry |first1=Charlotte |title=''Stypandra glauca'' |url=https://www.anbg.gov.au/gnp/interns-2007/stypandra-glauca.html |website=Growing Native Plants |publisher=Australian National Botanic Gardens |access-date=26 January 2023}}</ref>

==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.<ref name="COSGROVE"/><ref name ="ANBG"/>

Ingestion of flowering plants has been found to cause blindness in goats.<ref name="pmid3415616">{{cite journal|author1=Whittington R.J. |author2=Searson J.E. |author3=Whittaker S.J. |author4=Glastonbury J.R. | title=Blindness in goats following ingestion of ''Stypandra glauca''. | journal=Australian Veterinary Journal | year= 1988 | volume= 65 | issue= 6 | pages= 176–81 | pmid=3415616 | doi= 10.1111/j.1751-0813.1988.tb14295.x| url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3415616 }}</ref>

==Gallery==
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==See also==

* [[List of plants known as lily]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://avh.ala.org.au/occurrences/search?taxa=Stypandra+glauca#tab_mapView The Australasian Virtual Herbarium (AVH) – Occurrence data for ''Stypandra glauca'']
*{{cite web |url=http://www.cpbr.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni?taxon_id=31714|title= Stypandra glauca R.Br. |access-date=2007-10-05 |work= [[Australian Plant Name Index]] (APNI), IBIS database|author = Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra}}
* {{FloraBase|name=''Stypandra glauca'' R.Br.|id=1260}}
*{{cite web |url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=gn&name=Stypandra|title= Stypandra |access-date=2007-10-05 |work= PlantNET - New South Wales Flora Online |author1=Royal Botanic Gardens |author2=Domain Trust |name-list-style=amp }}
*{{cite web|url=http://asgap.org.au/s-gla.html|title=Stypandra glauca|date=19 November 2007|publisher=Association of Societies for Growing Australian Plants (ASGAP)}}
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[[Category:Asparagales of Australia]]
[[Category:Angiosperms of Western Australia]]
[[Category:Flora of South Australia]]
[[Category:Flora of Queensland]]
[[Category:Flora of New South Wales]]
[[Category:Flora of the Australian Capital Territory]]
[[Category:Flora of Victoria (state)]]
[[Category:Garden plants]]
[[Category:Plants described in 1810]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)]]
[[Category:Stypandra|glauca]]

Stypandra glauca - Revision history

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