Calectasia gracilis

Calectasia gracilis, commonly known as blue tinsel lily, is a species of plant in the family Dasypogonaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia.

It was first formally described in 2001 by Gregory John Keighery from a specimen collected near Cape Riche by Russell Barrett and Kingsley Dixon.

[1] This species of blue tinsel lily occurs from Albany and Stirling Range National Park east to Hopetoun.

It is scattered in the Stirling Range, Fitzgerald River and Frank Hann national parks, growing on quartzite sands, in mallee woodland or heath often over laterite or granite.

[1] Calectasia gracilis is uncommon but widespread and is classified as not threatened by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.