Flower cut lengthwise. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

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

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

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, private garden, Sydney

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

Common Name

Garland Lily, Purple Bells, Wilcannia Lily

Family

Amaryllidaceae

Notes

Perennial forb, shooting annually from a bulb, to 60cm tall. Leaves basal, to 60cm long, 4-18mm wide, flat. Flowers usually purple to reddish purple, sometimes pink, tubular at the base, funnel-shaped higher up, with 6 lobes, in umbels of 8-30 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. Rare Vic.

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

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Calostemma~purpureum