User:MargaretRDonald/sandbox/Tricoryne simplex

Tricoryne simplex is a small, softly pubescent perennial herb in the Asphodelaceae family, endemic to New South Wales. (However, NSW Plantnet states that it is a member of the family Anthericaceae, and Flora of Australia online, to the family Hemerocallidaceae. ) Flowering axis to 20 cm high, usually angular, glabrous, rarely branched. Leaves linear, 6-15 cm long, 3-5 mm wide, glabrous or scabrous, hairy at margin. Umbels 6-20-flowered or more; bracts scarious, subulate or with outer few leafy, 4-5 mm long, 0.5-1 mm wide; pedicels 5-12 mm or more long. Sepals oblong, acute, 6-8 mm long, 2-2.2 mm wide, 3-nerved. Petals obovate, obtuse, 6-6.5 mm long, 2.1-2.4 mm wide, 3- or 4-nerved. Filaments 2-3 mm long; anthers oblong, 1-1.3 mm long. Mericarps obovoid, 3.5-4 mm long, 2 mm diam.; umbo absent; pericarp reticulate.

It flowers from September to December and is found on the central coast of New South Wales.

The species was first described as Tricoryne simplex by the botanist Robert Brown in 1810 and the name has not been revised.