Watsonia marginata
(L.f.) Ker Gawl.Herb up to 1.2 m high. Basal leaves 25–45 cm long. Inflorescence usually with many short appressed branches, flowers crowded. Primary-bracts 1.2–1.8 cm long, dry and membranous, becoming lacerated, straw-coloured. Flowers pale pink, sub-actinomorphic. Perianth tube 1.3–1.5 cm long; lobes 1.3–2 cm long, 7–10 mm wide. Stamens symmetrically arranged around the style; anthers 6–8 mm long, yellow; staminodes 3, minute, alternating with the stamens. Style usually not exceeding stamens. Capsule ovoid, 0.8–1.2 cm long. Bulbils absent. Flowers Oct.
Also naturalised in WA, SA. Native to south-western Cape Province of South Africa. A garden escape which has become naturalised at Anglesea, Blackburn and Mornington.
Conn, B.J. (1994). Iridaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons, pp. 686–716. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
