Accession Data

Philydrum lanuginosum

Common Name: Woolly Waterlily, Frogmouth

Family: Philydraceae

Country of Origin: Australia

Description: Emergent aquatic perennial to 2 m or more high, often caespitose and shortly rhizomatous.

Leaves mostly basal; linear, to 60 cm long and 20 mm wide, mostly hairy.

Inflorescence spicate or branched, to 1 m long, flowers subtended by a bract almost as long as the flower; bract reflexed at anthesis. Perianth yellow, outer surfaces hairy; outer whorl c. 12–15 mm long and 10 mm wide; inner whorl c. 8 mm long and 2 mm wide. Stamen 1; anther twisted.

Capsule c. 10 mm long, hairy.

Accession Data

Accession #: 200900003

Accession Date: 2009-02-18 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 2309

Quantity: 3

Source: Tim Devine - CSU Chico

Culture: Tends to die out after flowering and fruiting, save seed, surface sow.

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Liliopsida

Subclass: commelinids

Order: Commelinales

Family: Philydraceae

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
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Philydrum lanuginosum