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Pillansia templemannii Pillansia templemannii
Pillansia templemannii Pillansia templemannii
Pillansia templemannii Pillansia templemannii

Habitat

Lower sandstone slopes

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Flowering time

Seldom flowers except after fire October - November

Description

Plants 60-120cm high. Corms depressed-globose. Leaves linear, strap-like, loosely twisted, ribbed, 10mm wide. Flowers bright orange, in open clusters borne on a branched stem. Bracts leathery and fibrotic. After fire it may be seen in spectacular sheets of colour. After: Neville Pillans, d. 1964, assistant curator of the Bolus Herbarium.

          

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2013 / 5 / 19