Thysanotus newbeyi
Thysanotus newbeyi is a species of flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family, and is endemic to inland areas of Western Australia. It is a perennial herb with tuberous roots, prostrate, flat leaves produced annually, a single umbel of two flowers with linear sepals, elliptic, fringed petals, six stamens and a bent style.
Description
Thysanotus newbeyi is a perennial herb with a small rootstock and sessile, tuberous elliptic roots. Its leaves are produced annually, prostrate, flat to slightly channelled, about long. The flowers are borne in an umbels of two flowers, each flower on a pedicel long. The flowers are purple, the perianth segments long. The sepals are more or less linear, wide and the petals are elliptic, about wide with a fringe about long. There are six stamens, the anthers about long. The style is bent in the opposite direction to the anthers and about long. Flowering occurs in August and September.Taxonomy
Thysanotus newbeyi was first formally described in 1981 by Norman Henry Brittan in the Flora of Australia from specimens he collected near Gnarlbine Rock, about south-west of Coolgardie in 1984.Australian authorities list T. newbeyi as a synonym of Thysanotus speckii.