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Leucocoryne purpurea

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in height. Umbels with five to seven flowers each about 5-6cm in diameter, pale lilac-blue with a large dark reddish-purple eye in the centre; lobes broadly obovate and usually rounded at the apex; staminodes three, yellow, often tipped purple. Mainly Coquimbo province at 100-150m. [Pl.243].