Flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowers on stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common Name

Yellow Garland Lily, Wilcannia Lily

Family

Amaryllidaceae

Notes

Perennial forb, shooting annually from a bulb, to 50cm tall. Leaves basal, 4-8mm wide, flat. Flowers yellow, tubular at the base, funnel-shaped higher up, with 6 lobes, in umbels of 8-20 flowers at the top of the flower stalk. Occurs east and north of the area covered by this key and along the Murray River in Victoria and SA. Vulnerable Vic.

This name is included in Calostemma purpureum in NSW.

Description and photo (as Calostemma purpurea) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 190

eFlora SA description: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/cgi-bin/speciesfacts_display.cgi?form=speciesfacts&name=Calostemma_luteum