e-Key v3 - Pseudogaltonia
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Hyacinthaceae - Pseudogaltonia (Kuntze) Engl.

Description :

  • Perennial, bulbous herbs
  • Bulb large, scales breaking up into long, coarse fibres; caudex small
  • Leaves 6-10, contemporary with flowers; erect; margin entire; soft; glaucous green, broadly linear-acuminate; glabrous
  • Inflorescence a subcapitate to somewhat elongated raceme, much overtopping leaves; bracts linear-acuminate, membranous, each with a small lateral bracteole
  • Flowers pale glaucous green; pendulous; pedicels long
  • Tepals fused below forming a slightly curved cylindric tube; lobes spreading, ovate, obtuse, about half as long as tube; semipersistent
  • Stamens 6, arising from throat of tube, just exserted; filaments deltoid, flat; anthers versatile, introrse
  • Ovary ovoid; ovules many; style terete; stigma small, apical
  • Fruit an obtusely ovoid capsule; dehiscing loculicidally
  • Seeds rounded, flattish, shiny black
  • x = 8 or 12 (1 report each)

Nomenclature:

  • Pseudogaltonia (Kuntze) Engl.
    • Kuntze: 274 (1886)
    • Engler: 158 (1888)
    • Baker: 451 (1897) under Galtonia
    • Sölch et al.: 63 (1970)
    • Burtt: 485 (1998)
  • Lindneria T.Durand & Lubbers
    • Durand & Lubbers: 216 (1889)
    • Speta: 123 (1985)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Southern Africa : Species 1: Pseudogaltonia clavata (Mast.) E.Phillips, Namibia, Botswana, Northern Province

References:

  • BAKER, J.G. 1897. Liliaceae . Flora capensis 6,2
  • BURTT, B.L. 1998. Return to Pseudogaltonia . Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 55
  • DURAND, Th. & LUBBERS, L. 1889. Un nouveau genre de Liliacées (Lindneria Th.Dur. et Lubbers). Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 36
  • ENGLER, A. 1888. Liliaceae . Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien 2, 5. Engelmann, Leipzig
  • KUNTZE, O. 1886. Plantae Pechuelianae Hereroenses. Jahrbuch des Königlichen Botanischen Gartens und des Botanischen Museums zu Berlin 4
  • SÖLCH, A., ROESSLER, H. & MERXMÜLLER, H. 1970. Liliaceae . Prodromus einer Flora von Südwestafrika 147
  • SPETA, L. 1985. Nomenklatorische, morphologische und karyologische Bemerkungen über Lindneria clavata (Masters) Speta. Botanische Jahrbücher 106