Thysanotus virgatus is a species of flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family, and is endemic to New South Wales, Australia. It is a leafless herb with a small rhizome, fibrous roots and several flowering stems with umbels of two purple flowers with linear to elliptic sepals, elliptic, fringed petals and six stamens with anthers of different lengths.
Description Thysanotus virgatus is a leafless herb with a small rhizome about long and fibrous roots. The flowers are borne in umbels on the ends of branched stems long, with up to two flowers on each branch, each flower on a pedicel long. The perianth segments are long, the sepal linear to elliptic, long. The petals are purple, elliptic, wide with a fringe long. There are six stamens with twisted anthers, the outer 3 anthers about long, the inner ones long, and the style long. Flowering occurs from December and January, and the capsule is in diameter.
Taxonomy Thysanotus virgatus was first formally described in 1972 by Norman Henry Brittan in Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, from specimens he collected near Bottle Forest Road in Heathcote. The specific epithet (virgatus) means 'having long, slender stems'.
Distribution and habitat This species of fringed lily grows in sandy soils in forest, or in heathy vegetation on poorly-drained sandstone plateau, from Sutherland and the Royal National Park to near Mount Keira.
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