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|accepted_name=Dianella
|accepted_authority=Lamarck ex Jussieu
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl.,
|place=41. 1789
|year=1789
}}
|common_names=Flax-lily
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Dianella
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Dianella]]</div></div>
|etymology=Latin Diana, Roman sylvan goddess, and - ella, diminutive suffix, alluding to the forest habitat and small stature
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 57
|treatment_page=page 221
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, evergreen, scapose, mat-forming, from stout, creeping, scaly rhizomes with fibrous, tuberous roots. <b>Leaves</b> basal, radical, distichous, crowded, sheathing, firm to subcoriaceous; blade linear to broadly ensiform, basal sheaths connate into short tubes, margins entire or serrulate, apex obtuse. <b>Scape</b> elongate, 0.5–1 m. <b>Inflorescences</b> paniculate, loosely branching with short, terminal racemes, bracteate; bracts small. <b>Flowers</b> nodding to ascending; tepals 6, persistent, withering, distinct, subequal, narrowly oblong to ovate, 3–7-veined; stamens 6, distinct; filaments barely adnate to tepal bases, thickened distally; anthers basifixed, dehiscence extrorse, opening by terminal pores that become longitudinal slits; ovary superior, 3-locular, septal nectaries present; style filiform; stigma minute, capitate; pedicel slender, articulate distally. <b>Fruits</b> rather long-persistent, baccate, blue to bluish purple, ovoid-globose. <b>Seeds</b> black, lustrous, ovate, somewhat flattened. <b>x</b> = 8.</span><!--

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|distribution=tropical Africa;Asia;Australia;and Polynesia.
|discussion=<p>Species 12–20 (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=schlittler1940a
|text=Schlittler, J. 1940. Monographie der Liliaceengattung Dianella Lam. Mitt. Bot. Mus. Univ. Zürich 163: 1–283.
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|id=schlittler1948a
|text=Schlittler, J. 1948. Unsere gegenwäertige Kenntnis über die Liliaceengattung Dianella in Malesien. Blumea 6: 200–228.
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|id=schlittler1957a
|text=Schlittler, J. 1957. Die Verbreitung der Liliaceengattung Dianella Lam. in Zusammenhang mit der Organdifferenzierung und der Arealbildung. Mitt. Bot. Mus. Univ. Zürich 207: 1–38.
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name=Dianella
|author=Frederick H. Utech
|authority=Lamarck ex Jussieu
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|distribution=tropical Africa;Asia;Australia;and Polynesia.
|introduced=true
|reference=schlittler1940a;schlittler1948a;schlittler1957a
|publication title=Gen. Pl.,
|publication year=1789
|special status=
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|genus=Dianella
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