Patersonia rosea Branwhite APNI* Description: Loosely tufted rhizomatous perennial herb to c. 50 cm high.
Leaves basal, linear to linear-ensiform, 23–66 cm long, 1.4–2.8 (–4.0) mm wide, dull green, with matted appressed fawn-coloured hairs on the faces, longer white hairs on the margins.
Scapes (0.5–) 21–60 cm long, pubescent. Spathe pair 35–50 mm long, greyish-brown to mid-brown, with numerous close parallel veins. Perianth tube white 5–20 mm long; outer tepals, broadly elliptic-obovate, 16–25(–30) mm long, 12–20(–25) mm wide pink; inner lobes obovate to obcuneate, c. 2 mm long. Filaments 3.5–5.0 mm long, connate. Ovary ± cylindrical, hairy.
Capsules narrowly ovoid to ellipsoid or narrowly obovoid, 13–21 mm long. Seeds cylindrical-fusiform to narrowly ovoid, 3.2–4.8 mm long, pale brown, aril extending from the non-attachment to almost the opposite end, linear, cream-stramineous when dry.
Flowering: December–January
Distribution and occurrence: Charmhaven – Wyee area on the New South Wales central coast. Single specimen collected from Laurieton on north coast in 1915. Sedgeland with an open stratum of emergent sclerophyllous shrubs.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC
Text by R. W. Jobson (2023)
Taxon concept: Branwhite et al. Telopea, Vol 26, pp. 61-73 (2023)
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