Olsynium filifolium

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

{{Other uses|Bermudiana (disambiguation)}}

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|image_caption = An 1885 lithograph of Olsynium filifolium, then known as Sisyrinchium filifoliumCurtis’s Botanical Magazine, vol. 111 [ser. 3, vol. 41]: t. 6829 (1885) [M. Smith] - http://plantillustrations.org/ILLUSTRATIONS_HD/4336.jpg

|genus = Olsynium

|species = filifolium

|authority = Gaudich.

|synonyms_ref = {{cite web |url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=324173 |title=Olsynium filifolium (Gaudich.) Goldblatt, Syst. Bot. 15: 508 (1990). |work=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=5 February 2013}}

|synonyms = Bermudiana filifolia

Olsynium lainezii

Phaiophleps lainezii

Sisyrinchium filifolium

Sisyrinchium filiforme

Sisyrinchium gaudichaudii

Sisyrinchium junceum subsp. filifolium

Symphyostemon lainezii

}}

Olsynium filifolium (pale maiden), or Bermudiana filifolia,[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-326867 The Plant List: Bermudiana filifolia] is the only species of the iris family native to the Falkland Islands. It is much better known by its former name Sisyrinchium filifolium. Although it is no longer as common as it once was, it is widely distributed on the islands, and favours temperate dwarf shrub heath. It (or a closely related species) is also found in Patagonia.{{cite book |last=Hooker |first=Joseph Dalton |author-link=Joseph Dalton Hooker |title=The botany of the Antarctic voyage of HM discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1843 under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross (Vol I, Part 2) |year=1847 |location=London |page=352 }}[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=324173 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]Múlgura, M.E. (1996). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de la República Argentina 1: 205-217. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.