Bulb large, 100-150 mm in diameter, with a tough, leathery covering, producing extensible threads when torn
Leaves perennial, 9-14, present during or after flowering, prostrate, biflabellate, narrowly to broadly lorate, glabrous; margins hyaline, usually fringed with short branched cilia; apex truncate in mature leaves
Inflorescence a 13-90-flowered, spreading cluster, 150-340 mm in diameter; scape compressed, solid, up to 200 mm long, abscissing at ground level for seed dispersal; spathe valves 2, broadly lanceolate, coriaceous
Flowers weakly irregular, widely funnel-shaped, ivory or pale to dark pink; pedicels spreading, shorter than to ± equalling perigone at anthesis, lengthening and radiating in fruit
Tepals connate into a distinct subcylindric tube; segments oblanceolate, spreading and slightly recurved distally, longer than tube
Fruit indehiscent, pyriform to subfusiform, somewhat trigonous, prominently 6-ribbed, bluntly beaked, walls papery, breaking open irregularly
Seeds water-rich, subglobose, 5-30 mm in diameter, with a thin corky covering; endosperm greenish in outer layers; embryo green
x = 11
Nomenclature:
Cybistetes Milne-Redh. & Schweick.
Milne-Redhead & Schweickerdt: 191 (1939)
Müller-Doblies: 359 (1994)
Snijman & Williamson: 127 (1994)
Distribution & Notes:
Southern Africa: Species 1: Cybistetes longifolia (L.) Milne-Redh. & Schweick., widespread in the western winter-rainfall region in Namibia, Northern and Western Cape
References:
MILNE-REDHEAD, E. & SCHWEICKERDT, H.G. 1939. A new conception of the genus Ammocharis Herb. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 52
MÜLLER-DOBLIES, D. & U. 1994. De Liliifloris notulae 5. Some new taxa and combinations in the Amaryllidaceae tribe Amaryllideae from arid southern Africa. Feddes Repertorium 105
SNIJMAN, D.A. & WILLIAMSON, G. 1994. A taxonomic re-assessment of Ammocharis herrei and Cybistetes longifolia (Amaryllideae: Amaryllidaceae). Bothalia 24
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