''Wurmbea monantha'' is a perennial herb that is native to

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.Kew World Checklist for Selected Plant Families, Wurmbea monantha
/ref> The white to pink flowers are produced between July and September in its native range. The species was first formally described in 1846 by Austrian botanist

Stephen Endlicher Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher also known as Endlicher István László (24 June 1804, Bratislava (Pozsony) – 28 March 1849, Vienna) was an Austrian botanist, numismatist and Sinologist. He was a director of the Botanical Garden of Vienna. Bio ...

in ''Plantae Preissianae'', based on plant material collected from

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. He gave it the name ''Anguillaria monantha''. The species was transferred to the genus ''

Wurmbea ''Wurmbea'' is a genus of perennial herbs in the family Colchicaceae, native to Africa and Australia. There are about 50 species, with about half endemic to each continent. Recently the circumscription of the genus ''Wurmbea'' has been increa ...

'' in 1980 by Terry Macfarlane. The specific epithet, ''monantha'', is a Botanical Latin adjective, ''monanthus, -a, -um'', which describes the plant as being "one-flowered".

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monantha Monocots of Australia Angiosperms of Western Australia Plants described in 1846 Taxa named by Terry Desmond Macfarlane Taxa named by Stephan Endlicher {{WesternAustralia-plant-stub