Caesia calliantha
R.J.F.Hend. Blue Grass-lilyPlants tufted. Roots fibrous, mostly with fusiform tubers 1–4 cm long toward tips. Leaves linear, flat, spreading or ascending, 8–50 cm long, 3–15 mm wide, shining green on lower surface, glaucous above. Inflorescence erect, 15–70 cm tall, axis rather stout, simple or few-branched with leafy bracts. Flowers blue or purplish, with darker nerves, clustered in bract axils, the lowest cluster subtended by a bract to 6 cm long; perianth segments spreading, 6–10 mm long, longer than stamens; staminal filaments usually with purple band shortly below anther. Capsule 4–8 mm wide. Seed 1.5–2 mm diam. Flowers Sep.–Jan.
LoM, Wim, GleP, VVP, VRiv, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, HSF, HNF, VAlp. Also SA, NSW, Tas. Occasional on heavier soils mostly in western and northern Victoria (Serviceton area, Ararat, Ballarat, basalt plain near Melbourne, Murchison, Warby Range etc.), but uncommon to rare in the east (e.g. Glenmaggie, Bruthen area).
Conran, J.G. (1994). Liliaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons, pp. 637–686. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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