& N.Taylor in L.H.Bailey Blandfordia nobilis, commonly known as Christmas bells or gadigalbudyari in Cadigal language,[2] is a flowering plant endemic to New South Wales, Australia.
It is a tufted, perennial herbs with narrow, linear leaves and between three and twenty large, drooping, cylindrical to bell-shaped flowers.
[2][3][4] Blandfordia nobilis was first formally described in 1804 by English botanist James Edward Smith who published the description in Exotic Botany from dried specimens sent from Sydney by the colonial surgeon, John White.
[8] Blandfordia nobilis grows on poor sandstone soils and swampy areas, between the towns of Sydney, Milton and Braidwood.
[4] Seeds of B. nobilis were sent to English plant nurseries at about the same time as dried specimens were sent to the botanist, Smith.