Procumbent to weakly ascending herb, stems to c. 20 cm long. Rhizomes thin, spreading. Leaves sessile, ovate to lanceolate with undulate margins, 15–50 mm long, 8–15 mm wide. Flowers solitary, terminal; pedicel 10–30 mm long; perianth segments oblong or narrowly obovate, 6–12 mm long, pink or mauve, faintly streaked by 3–5 nerves, widely spreading, soon deciduous; stamens about half as long as perianth segments, anthers purple. Capsule obovoid, papillate, 6–10 mm long; seeds globular, c. 2 mm diam., vertically streaked, with strophiole about as long as body of seed. Flowers Sep.–Nov
EGL, EGU. Also NSW. Occasional in open to somewhat shaded, near-coastal forests in the far east, extending west to near Orbost.
Source:
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.
