Laxmannia
Tufted or stilt-rooted rhizomatous perennial herbs. Roots wiry and often aerial. Leaves cauline, linear, terete or triquetrous, with sheathing base. Inflorescence a pedunculate to sessile, terminal, head-like umbel, surrounded by an involucre of scarious bracts. Flowers shortly pedicellate, bisexual; sepals free; petals free or partly fused; stamens 6, slightly shorter than petals, inner 3 largely fused to petals, filaments filiform, anthers dorsifixed; ovary superior, 3-locular with 1–8 ovules per locule; style filiform, stigma dilated. Fruit a capsule surrounded by the persistent perianth; seeds 3–12, triangular, black, papillate.
13 species, endemic in Australia, predominantly in Western Australia, 2 in Victoria.
Conran, J.G.; Walsh, N.G. (1994). Laxmannia. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons, pp. 666–667. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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