Bulb globose or ovoid, usually deep-seated, covered with a few outer, brown membranous tunics, inner scales whitish
Leaves 2; contemporary with flowers; ± flat on ground or erect-spreading; ovate to ovate-acuminate; usually with several to many sunken veins; glabrous or pustulate
Inflorescence a spike or raceme of few to many flowers; lower bracts ovate to obovate, membranous, small
Flowers white or pink, dimorphous: basal flowers irregular with tepals fused below forming a tube, extended on adaxial side; tepal lobes linear; uppermost flowers regular with tepals fused below forming a tube, tepal lobes ovate to ovate-acuminate
Stamens 6, protruding; basal flowers with filaments on adaxial side basally connate, on abaxial side free; uppermost flowers with filaments basally connate; anthers versatile, introrse
Ovary narrowly ovoid; ovules few to several; style tapering; stigma small, apical
Fruit a narrowly ovoid capsule, membranous; dehiscing loculicidally
Seeds globose, black
Classification Notes:
Following Müller-Doblies & Müller-Doblies (1997), other species previously placed under Neobakeria (see Reid: ### (1993)~(Page number missing. No access to the publication) ) are placed under Massonia
Nomenclature:
Neobakeria Schltr.
Schlechter: 149 (1924)
Jessop: 406 (1976) under Massonia
Müller-Doblies & Müller-Doblies: 86 (1997)
Distribution & Notes:
Southern Africa: Species 1: Neobakeria namaquensis Schltr., Northern Cape
References:
JESSOP, J.P. 1976. Studies in the bulbous Liliaceae in South Africa. The taxonomy of Massonia and allied genera. Journal of South African Botany 42
MÜLLER-DOBLIES, U. & D. 1997. A partial revision of the tribe Massonieae. Feddes Repertorium 108
REID, C. 1993. Hyacinthaceae. In T.H. Arnold & B.C. de Wet, Plants of southern Africa: names and distribution. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa No. 48
SCHLECHTER, R. 1924. Drei neue Gattungen der Liliaceen aus Südafrika. Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 9
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