Laxmannia ramosa

Common name: Branching Lily

Meaning of name:

Laxmannia honours Erik Laxmann (1737 – 1796), a pastor in Siberia who wrote on Siberian botany and sent specimens to Linnaeus’s herbarium. Ramosa is from the Latin word ramosus meaning much branched.

Distribution:

Occurs in the south west of Western Australia.

Description:

A sprawling plant with stems up to 30 centimetres long. Flowers are white with a red stripe and are borne along the stems from May to June.

References:

Western Australian Plant Names and their Meanings, a Glossary. FA Sharr. 1996.

Flora of the Perth Region. NG Marchant, JR Wheeler, BL Rye, EM Bennett, NS Lander, TD Macfarlane. 1987.

Perth Plants, A Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park, Perth, Western Australia. Russell Barratt and Eng Pin Tay. 2005.

Atlas of Living Australia https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2916029

Florabase https://florabase.dbca.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/1307