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Blue Tinsel Lily

Blue Tinsel Lily

Calectasia cyanea

Family Dasypogonaceae

Critically Endangered (EPBC Act) — single known population

About

A clump-forming perennial herb with an extremely restricted range around Torndirrup National Park and Albany — a 2005 survey counted roughly 70 plants across only about 0.02 km² of yellow sand over laterite.

How to spot it

Grows to about 60cm tall with narrow leaves 6.5-13.2mm long. Flowers have six dark-blue petals fading to white with age, and yellow anthers that turn orange-red as they mature; blooms June-October.

Found in

  • Torndirrup National Park

Source: Wikipedia: Calectasia cyanea

Photo: Geoff Derrin (CC BY-SA 4.0) via Wikimedia Commons