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Patersonia sericea
Species of flowering plant / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Patersonia sericea, commonly known as purple flag[2] or silky purple-flag[3] is a species of plant in the iris family Iridaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a densely-tufted perennial herb with linear, sword-shaped leaves, broadly egg-shaped, bluish-violet tepals and an oval capsule.
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Order: | Asparagales |
Family: | Iridaceae |
Genus: | Patersonia |
Species: | P. sericea |
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Patersonia sericea | |
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