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Colchicaceae - Iphigenia Kunth

Description:

  • Slender geophytes
  • Corms ovoid, covered with thin, dark tunics
  • Stem straight or flexuose, with 1 or 2 tubular, basal spathes
  • Leaves: lowest 1-3 with free tubular sheathing bases and linear to filiform blades, spirally arranged; upper leaves sessile, decurrent, placed beside flower
  • Flowers 3-10, in a lax scorpioid cyme; pedicels recurved
  • Perianth: segments free, deciduous, linear
  • Stamens hypogynous; filaments short, filiform; anthers basifixed, extrorse
  • Ovary ovoid, with many ovules; style very short, with 3 falcate, stigmatic, papillate branches
  • Capsule ovoid to cylindrical, loculicidal
  • Seeds small, globular, papillate, with a distinct raphe
  • x = 11 (10)

Nomenclature:

  • Iphigenia Kunth
    • Kunth: 212 (1843)
    • Baker: 561 (1898)
    • Obermeyer: 84 (1961)
    • Sölch et al.: 52 (1970)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species ± 15, Africa, Madagascar, India, Australia, New Zealand
  • Southern Africa: Species 1: Iphigenia bechuanica Baker, Namibia, Botswana, Northern Province, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal

References:

  • BAKER, J.G. 1898. Liliaceae. Flora of tropical Africa 7
  • KUNTH, C.S. 1843. Iphigenia. Enumeratio plantarum 4. J.G. Cotta, Stuttgart & Tübingen
  • OBERMEYER, A.A. 1961. Iphigenia and Camptorrhiza in southern Africa. Kirkia 1
  • SÖLCH, A., ROESSLER, H. & MERXMÜLLER, H. 1970. Liliaceae. Prodromus einer Flora von Südwestafrika 147

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