Flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Aistralian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Flowering plant. Photo: Don Wood, ACT

Flowering plant. Photo: Don Wood, south coast, NSW

Flowers. Photo: Don Wood, Carnarvon Station Bush Heritage Reserve, via Augathella, Qld

Flowering plant. Photo: Don Wood, Carnarvon Station Bush Heritage Reserve, via Augathella, Qld

Clump. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Aistralian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Common Name

Spreading Flax-lily; Black-anther Flax-lily; Blueberry Lily, Blue Flax-lily

Family

Hemerocallidaceae

Notes

Perennial forb to 1m tall.  Leaves mainly basal, some alternating along the stems, with a sheath at the base, to 100cm long, 4-20mm wide, flat, hairless, edges curved or rolled downwards.  Flowers blue to violet, with 6 ‘petals’, in open groups at the tops of the stems. Berries blue. Family Phormiaceae in NSW. Family Liliaceae in SA.

Differs from Dianella longifolia ssp. longifolia and Dianella porracea in that the anthers are brown to almost black, and the leaf edges are curved or rolled down.

Short description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 184

eFloraSA fact sheet:  http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/cgi-bin/speciesfacts_display.cgi?form=speciesfacts&name=Dianella_revoluta