Thysanotus pauciflorus

Thysanotus pauciflorus is a tufted perennial herb with a small rootstock enclosed by old leaf bases. Its five to seven leaves are linear, glabrous, 50–70 mm (2.0–2.8 in) long and 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) wide. The flowers are usually borne in a single umbel with two to four purple flowers on a flowering stem about equal to the leaves and often low lying. Each flower is on a pedicel 5–8 mm (0.20–0.31 in) long. The perianth segments are about 11 mm (0.43 in) long, the sepals lance-shaped, 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) wide. The petals are elliptic, 6–8 mm (0.24–0.31 in) wide, with a fringe about 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) long. There are three stamens, the anthers about 3 mm (0.12 in) long and slightly curved. Flowering occurs from July to October, and the seeds are cylindrical, 2 mm (0.079 in) long and 1 mm (0.039 in) in diameter with a stalked, pale straw-coloured aril.

Few-flowered fringe lily grows in flats and dunes in sand in mallee eucalypt vegetation and low scrub in near coastal regions of the south coast of Western Australia, from the southern slopes of the Stirling Range to near Hopetoun in the Esperance Plains, Hampton and Mallee bioregions.