Patersonia limbata is a species of plant in the iris family Iridaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a tufted, rhizome-forming herb with sword-shaped, bordered leaves and violet tepals.
Patersonia limbata is a tufted perennial herb that forms a rhizome and has glabrous, sword-shaped leaves long and wide with a thickened border about wide. The flowering scape is long and glabrous with two short, pale-coloured leaves. The outer tepals are violet, egg-shaped to round, up to long and wide, the hypanthium tube about long and glabrous. Flowering occurs from September to October.[1]
Patersonia limbata was first described in 1846 by Stephan Endlicher in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae from specimens collected near Albany in 1840.[2] [3] The specific epithet (limbata) means "having a border".[4]
This patersonia grows in heath, scrub and woodland in scattered locations on the southern Darling Range and in near-coastal areas from Albany to the Cape Arid National Park.
Patersonia limbata is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.