Lilies & Irises
This group includes any herbaceous monocot that has prominent flowers in which the flower parts are in two whorls. Monocots have one seed leaf compared to two in dicotyledons. Mature plants are recognised by parallel longitudinal veins in their often narrow leaves and by having flowers parts in threes or multiples of three.
Identification is largely on differences in flower parts, the number of flowers borne at each part of the stem from which a leaf is attached or on the form of basal leaves. Ideally records for lilies and irises should include close-up photographs of the flowers and basal leaves and a shot that shows flower arrangement along the stem.
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I took some photos this morning. I hope you can view these.
Wurmbea dioica subsp. dioica
– though will still check more with other alien Sparaxis taxa from overseas not much recorded in Au,
including finding and checking botanical information from the native range of these Sparaxis species.
These two photographs in re-checking the genus i have some previous Vic. experience with,
clearly these sighted plants key out really well to this genus *Sparaxis*,
in VicFlora here : https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/key/2111
If we want to test an alternative genus thesis then test genus *Tritonia* to check if this fits and to identify to species .
@TapirLord .
Sparaxis bulbifera
• Tepals ('sepals') shown here have hairs visible coming out of their tips (and would have more hairs on their undersides).
• two flowers on both the bottom and on the mid.–top peduncles .
Ref's (in brief, without full citations):
Flora of NSW online PlantNet:
• https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hypoxis~hygrometrica
• https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=in&name=Hypoxis~hygrometrica~var.+villosisepala
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Hypoxis hygrometrica var. villosisepala
Wurmbea dioica subsp. dioica
Bulbine bulbosa
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