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Accession Data:

Philydrum lanuginosum Banks ex Sol.

  • Common Name: Woolly Waterlily, Frogmouth
  • Family: Philydraceae Link.

  • Country of Origin: Australia
  • Habitat: Grows in swamps, along margins of streams and dams; widespread

  • Description: Emergent aquatic perennial to 2 m or more high, often caespitose and shortly rhizomatous.

    Leaves mostly basal; linear, to 60 cm long and 20 mm wide, mostly hairy.

    Inflorescence spicate or branched, to 1 m long, flowers subtended by a bract almost as long as the flower; bract reflexed at anthesis. calyx and corolla of a flower (generally used when the two are similar).">Perianth yellow, outer surfaces hairy; outer whorl c. 12–15 mm long and 10 mm wide; inner whorl c. 8 mm long and 2 mm wide. Stamen 1; anther twisted.

    Capsule c. 10 mm long, hairy.

  • Culture: Tends to die out after flowering and fruiting, save seed, surface sow.

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 200900003
  • Source: Tim Devine - CSU Chico
  • Accession Date: 02-18-2009
  • Bench: 2309 - Temperate Carnivores
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 3 confirmed on 07-16-2024

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Liliopsida
  • SubClass: commelinids
  • Order: Commelinales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Philydraceae
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Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
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References (internal):

References (external):

  1. New South Wales FLORA Online

data regenerated on Tue, 16 Jul 2024 14:21:32 -0400 [bcm v4.0]

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Current Accessions in the Philydraceae

  • Philydrum lanuginosum
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