Matted Flax Lily

Flowering occurs from october to april stems are 20 90 cm long and bear several bluish star shaped flowers.

Matted flax lily.

Much of this habitat has been cleared and remaining populations of matted flax lily are mostly small and highly fragmented. Leaves are grey green dull crimson at the base narrow and tapering to 45 cm long by 12 mm wide. As part of the early works for the north east link project the abzeco team has undertaken salvage of matted flax lily to facilitate construction of a fence. Listed as endangered under the environment protection biodiversity act 1999 the matted flax lily dianella amoena is one such species.

Plants flower from october to april and are followed by purple blue berries. However the north link project has been granted permission to destroy habitat supporting over 100 matted flax lily at the simpson army barracks just east of greensborough road. Flowerstem to 45 cm tall with numerous pale dark blue scented flowers to 20 mm wide. The edges and midribs of the leaves have tiny irregularly spaced teeth.

Listed as endangered under the environment protection biodiversity act 1999 the matted flax lily dianella amoena is one such species. Monitoring spring summer 2011 2012 v summary this report documents monitoring of matted flax lily dianella amoena plants on the sugarloaf pipeline easement south of gibbs road yarra glen undertaken in january may 2012. It can be found albeit in vastly depleted stocks on the iconic victorian volcanic plains. Matted flax lily dianella amoena translocation.

The matted flax lily dianella amoena is a tufted mat forming lily which has small blue violet flowers with orange strumae swellings at the base of the anthers. A tufted mat forming perennial lily with grey green leaves which are often crimson at the base. It can be found albeit in vastly depleted stocks on the iconic victorian volcanic plains. It is estimated that 1400 2500 matted flax lily are left in the wild and the species is listed as endangered under state and federal legislation.

The matted flax lily dianella amoena is a small perennial tufted lily endemic to victoria where it is distributed from the south west to the east of the state occurring in grassland and grassy woodland habitats. Small round whitish to dark blue berries. Matted flax lily north east link an ecological misadventure says expert the devastating ecological impact of melbourne s north east link tollway project should force its rethink writesmary merkenich. The plants were all actively growing and healthy after some very welcome heavy summer and autumn rainfall events.

The matted flax lily can reach up to 90cm in height when flowering and can form loose clumps up to 5 metres wide.