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Colchicaceae - Neodregea C.H.Wright

Description:

  • Small, umbraticolous geophytes
  • Corms asymmetrical, obovoid; young corms producing lateral basal bulges and tunics forming a fold at base from which roots emerge fan-wise
  • Stem with a basal neck covered by sheaths, simple above
  • Leaves 3: basal one spreading, linear, with sheathing part gaping above, second leaf smaller, opposite, and third leaf bract-like below lowest flower of spike
  • Flowers 1-3
  • Perianth: segments narrowly linear-ovate, aristate, auriculate above claw, persistent, reflexed in fruit
  • Stamens arising on claw, short, dorsifixed, introrse
  • Ovary ovoid; ovules several; styles 3, long, arising laterally on truncate ovary lobes; stigmas apical, minute
  • Capsule trigonous, with apical flat part of locules diverging in fruit, bearing persistent incurved, pointed style bases on outside
  • Seeds globose, lenticular

Nomenclature:

  • Neodregea C.H.Wright
    • Wright: 308 (1909)
    • Hooker: t. 2931 (1913)
    • Garside: 292 (1935)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Southern Africa: Species 1: Neodregea glassii C.H.Wright, from Port Elizabeth (Eastern Cape) to Somerset West (Western Cape)

References:

  • GARSIDE, S. 1935. A revision of the characters of Neodregea. Kew Bulletin 1935
  • HOOKER, W.J. 1913. Neodregea glassii. Icones Plantarum series 4, 10
  • WRIGHT, C.H. 1909. Diagnoses africanae: XXX. Kew Bulletin 1909

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