# Laxmannia

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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
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|image = Appendix to the first twenty-three volumes of Edwards's Botanical Register - Plate 7.png
|image_caption = ''[Laxmannia grandiflora](/source/Laxmannia_grandiflora)''<br/>1839 illustration<ref>from A sketch of the vegetation of the Swan River Colony by John Lindley. The plants depicted are ''Laxmannia grandiflora'' and ''Johnsonia hirta'' (now ''Johnsonia pubescens'').</ref>
|taxon = Laxmannia
|authority = [R.Br.](/source/R.Br.)<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331224-2 |title=''Laxmannia'' R.Br. |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |year=2025 |access-date=9 December 2025}}</ref>
|synonyms_ref={{R|POWO}}
|synonyms=''Bartlingia'' <small>F.Muell. ex Benth., ''[nom. illeg.](/source/nom._illeg.)''</small>
}}

'''''Laxmannia''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of tufted perennial herbs in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Asparagaceae](/source/Asparagaceae), subfamily [Lomandroideae](/source/Lomandroideae),<ref>{{Citation |last=Chase |first=M.W. |last2=Reveal |first2=J.L. |last3=Fay |first3=M.F. |year=2009 |title=A subfamilial classification for the expanded asparagalean families Amaryllidaceae, Asparagaceae and Xanthorrhoeaceae |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=161 |issue=2 |pages=132–136 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00999.x|name-list-style=amp |doi-access=free }}</ref> that are [endemic](/source/endemic) to [Australia](/source/Australia).<ref name=NSW>{{cite web |url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=gn&name=Laxmannia|title=Genus ''Laxmannia''| accessdate=2009-04-19 |work= PlantNET - New South Wales Flora Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney Australia}}</ref>

Species:{{R|POWO}}<ref name=APNI>{{cite web |url=http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni?TAXON_NAME=LAXMANNIA |title=''Laxmannia'' |accessdate=2009-04-19 |work=[Australian Plant Name Index](/source/Australian_Plant_Name_Index) (APNI), IBIS database |publisher=Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra |archive-date=2 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502175652/https://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni?TAXON_NAME=LAXMANNIA |url-status=dead }}</ref>

* ''[Laxmannia arida](/source/Laxmannia_arida)'' <small>[Keighery](/source/Gregory_John_Keighery)</small> - WA, NT
* ''[Laxmannia brachyphylla](/source/Laxmannia_brachyphylla)'' <small>F.Muell.</small> &ndash; Stilted Paper-Lily<ref name=WA>{{FloraBase|name=''Laxmannia'' |id=21204 }}</ref> - WA
* ''[Laxmannia compacta](/source/Laxmannia_compacta)'' <small>Conran & P.I.Forst.</small> - NSW, Qld
* ''[Laxmannia gracilis](/source/Laxmannia_gracilis)'' <small>R.Br.</small> &ndash; Slender Wire-lily<ref name=NSW/> - NSW, Qld, Vic
* ''[Laxmannia grandiflora](/source/Laxmannia_grandiflora)'' <small>Lindl.</small> - WA
* ''[Laxmannia jamesii](/source/Laxmannia_jamesii)'' <small>Keighery</small> &ndash; Paperlily<ref name=WA/>  - WA
* ''[Laxmannia minor](/source/Laxmannia_minor)'' <small>R.Br.</small>  - WA
* ''[Laxmannia omnifertilis](/source/Laxmannia_omnifertilis)'' <small>Keighery</small> - WA
* ''[Laxmannia orientalis](/source/Laxmannia_orientalis)'' <small>Keighery</small> &ndash; Dwarf Wire-lily<ref name=Corrick>{{cite book|author1=Corrick, M.G.  |author2=Fuhrer, B.A.| title=Wildflowers of Victoria and adjoining areas| publisher=Bloomings Books|location= Australia | year=2001 | isbn=1876473142}}</ref> - SA, Vic, Tas
* ''[Laxmannia paleacea](/source/Laxmannia_paleacea)'' <small>F.Muell.</small> - WA
* ''[Laxmannia ramosa](/source/Laxmannia_ramosa)'' <small>Lindl.</small> &ndash; Branching Lily<ref name=WA/> - WA
* ''[Laxmannia sessiliflora](/source/Laxmannia_sessiliflora)'' <small>Decne.</small> - WA
* ''[Laxmannia squarrosa](/source/Laxmannia_squarrosa)'' <small>Lindl.</small> &ndash; Nodding Lily<ref name=WA/> - WA

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Category:Laxmannia
Category:Asparagaceae genera
Category:Asparagales of Australia
Category:Endemic flora of Australia

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