Blue Mountains FloraMountain Devil Patersonia sericea Wollemi Pine
The species Patersonia sericea have two recognised variety Patersonia sericea and Patersonia sericea var. longifolia. With the common names of Purple Flag, Silky Purple Flag and Dwarf Purple Flag (the latter name referring to the var longifolia).
Endemic to eastern Australia, from north-eastern Victoria to south-eastern Queensland. It is found growing in open forest, woodland and grassland. Pictured here were growing in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales.
Patersonia sericea is a densely-tufted perennial herb, that has linear, sword-shaped leaves, broadly egg-shaped, with bluish-violet tepals and an oval capsule. It is a species in the Iris family Iridaceae.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
- Subphylum: Angiospermae
- Class: Lilliopsida
- Order: Asparagales
- Family: Iridaceae
- Subfamily: Nivenioideae
- Genus: Patersonia
- Species: Patersonia sericea
- Variety:
- Patersonia sericea
- Patersonia sericea var. longifolia
Footnote & References
- Silky Purple Flag (Patersonia sericea), iNaturalistAU, https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/321203-Patersonia-sericea
- Patersonia sericea, Plants of South Eastern New South Wales, https://apps.lucidcentral.org/plants_se_nsw/text/entities/patersonia_sericea.htm
- Patersonia sericea R.Br., New South Wales Flora Online, PlantNET, https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Patersonia~sericea
- Patersonia sericea, Australian Native Plants Society (Australia), ANPSA, https://anpsa.org.au/plant_profiles/patersonia-sericea/
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