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Short Purple Iris Genus Patersonia |
The Patersonia fragilis is a
small iris with the flowers and tufts of leaves growing from a short
creeping rhizome. Leaves are about 10 to 30 cm long, can be thick,
sometimes rounded, pale or grey-green in colour, narrow and pointed. The
stalk of the flower is shorter than the leaves. Two long bracts enclose
the flower prior to opening. The flowers are blue-mauve in colour. Often
mistaken by the general public as having only 3 petals, the Patersonia
has 6-lobes, the 3 outer lobes are large and spreading, whilst the inner
lobes are tiny and erect.
Tasmania has two species of Patersonia, P. fragilis differs
from P. occidentalis by thicker
leaves, short flower stalk and the tube of the flower which extends
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Scientific
Classification |
| Kingdom: |
Plantae |
| Division: |
Magnoliophyta |
| Class: |
Liliopsida |
| Order: |
Asparagales |
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| Family: |
Iridaceae |
| Genus: |
Patersonia |
| Species: |
Patersonia fragilis |
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Short Purple Iris Images |
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Short Purple Iris
(Patersonia fragilis), Strahan, Tasmania. |
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ฉ C Leel, September 2002 |
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