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Haemodoraceae - Dilatris P.J.Bergius

Description:

  • Perennial herbs, tufted, with reddish, woody rhizome
  • Leaves distichous, rigid, glabrous, linear to linear-oblong, ribbed
  • Scape pubescent, longer than leaves, with few, spaced, lanceolate, amplexicaul bracts
  • Flowers in racemes, corymbs, or pseudo-umbellate panicles, helicoid, maturing from lowest upwards and branches straightening with maturity
  • Perianth segments subequal, persistent, mauve, orange or yellow, outer segments narrower and more hairy
  • Stamens 3, one with a shorter filament and larger anther; anthers versatile, sagittate
  • Ovary inferior with a solitary axile ovule in each locule, sometimes 1 or 2 carpels abortive; style slender, about equal to stamens; stigma minute
  • Capsule opening from apex, along junction of carpels to ± halfway
  • Seeds discoid, flat or convex above, concave below

Nomenclature:

  • Dilatris P.J.Bergius
    • Bergius: 9, t. 3 fig. 5 (1767)
    • Baker: 3 (1896)
    • Barker: 147 (1940)
    • Barker: 205 (1950)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Southern Africa: Species 4, Western Cape

References:

  • BAKER, J.G. 1896. Haemodoraceae. Flora capensis: 6
  • BARKER, W.F. 1940. The genus Dilatris Berg. with the description of a new species. Journal of South African Botany 6
  • BARKER, W.F. 1950. Haemodoraceae. In R.S. Adamson & T.M. Salter, Flora of the Cape Peninsula. Juta, Cape Town
  • BERGIUS, P.J. 1767. Descriptiones plantarum ex Capite Bonae Spei. Laurentius Salvius, Stockholm

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