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MONOCOTYLEDON - LILIIDAE - LILIALES - Burmanniaceae

Compiled by C. Archer

Description:

  • Small, delicate, perennial, usually saprophytic, herbs
  • Leaves basal or reduced to scales
  • Flowers bisexual, regular, solitary, or in a bifurcate cyme
  • Perianth corolla-like, usually 6-lobed, fused at base into a 3-winged tube; inner lobes smaller than outer or sometimes 0
  • Stamens 3-6, arising from perianth tube, sessile or subsessile; anther with 2 widely separated thecae; connective dilated
  • Ovary inferior, 3-locular, with axile placentas; ovules many, minute; style shortly 3-lobed
  • Fruit a ± 3-winged capsule, usually crowned with dry perianth, opening by longitudinal slits
  • Seeds minute
  • x = 6 (1 report)

Nomenclature:

  • Burmanniaceae
    • Wright: 2 (1912)
    • Hutchinson: 841 (1973)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Genera ± 15, species 125, ± cosmopolitan in tropics and subtropics
  • Southern Africa: Genus 1, species 1

References:

  • HUTCHINSON, J. 1973. Families of flowering plants, edn 3. Clarendon Press, Oxford
  • WRIGHT, C.H. 1912. Burmanniaceae. Flora capensis 5, 3

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