Lampranthus glaucus
(L.) N.E.Br.Decumbent to ascending subshrub 15–30 cm high, Leaves narrowly 3-angled, triangular, acutely keeled, acute, broadest at shortly connate leaf base, 14–20 mm long, 3–5 mm wide, c. 4 mm thick, glaucous distally, green at base, reddish on margins and keel, papillate with small reddish dots. Flowers terminal, solitary, 45–50 mm diam.; pedicel 10–20 mm long long; sepals c. 10 mm long, the lobes slightly unequal; staminodes golden yellow to lemon yellow, c. twice as long as sepals. Capsule obconic, c. 10 mm diam.; seeds c. 1 mm long, orange-brown. Flowers Oct.(2 collections).
Also naturalised WA, SA, Tas. Native to South Africa. In Victoria known from an 1886 collection from Mentone, where reported as a garden escape, and a 1948 collection from East Camberwell, where growing along railway tracks. Perhaps it was never fully naturalised.
