Flowering plant. Photo: Russell Best, Murray Sunset National Park, Vic

Flowering stem and root. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, west of Braidwood, NSW

Common Name

Twining Fringe-lily

Family

Asparagaceae

Notes

Perennial forb, twining on other plants, or sprawling along the ground, stems to 1m long. Leaves at the base of the plant, produced annually, withering early, 10-20cm long, narrow cylindrical. Flowering stems produced annually. Flowers with 6 'petals', mauve to violet or purple, solitary along the branches. Family Anthericaceae in NSW, family Liliaceae in SA.

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 186

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