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Colchicaceae - Camptorrhiza Hutch.

Description:

  • Slender geophytes
  • Corms asymmetrically ovoid, often with a lateral, horizontal, geniculate tuber (stolon) attached to it
  • Stem sheathed by tubular spathe below
  • Leaves: lowest 1 or 2 with free tubular sheaths and a linear, canaliculate blade; upper leaves sessile, decurrent
  • Flowers 3-12, in a lax scorpioid cyme; rachis flexuose; pedicels long, erect, recurved in fruit
  • Perianth: segments free, deciduous, oblong, concave, with involute margins, reflexed at anthesis
  • Stamens hypogynous; filaments short, with an orbicular swelling in the middle; anthers versatile, with thecae placed horizontally at anthesis
  • Ovary ovoid, trigonous, with many ovules; style simple; stigma apical, minute
  • Capsule globose to cylindrical
  • Seeds globose, brown, with a thick ventral raphe

Nomenclature:

  • Camptorrhiza Hutch.
    • Hutchinson: 101 (1934)
    • Phillips: t. 575 (1935)
    • Obermeyer: 86 (1961)
    • Sölch et al.: 35 (1970)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species 1: Camptorrhiza strumosa (Baker) Oberm., Southern Afirica, Zimbabwe and Mozambique
  • Southern Africa: Namibia, Botswana, Northern Province, North-West, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Swaziland and KwaZulu-Natal

References:

  • HUTCHINSON, J. 1934. The families of flowering plants, Vol. 2. Monocotyledons. MacMillan, London
  • OBERMEYER, A.A. 1961. Iphigenia and Camptorrhiza in southern Africa. Kirkia 1
  • PHILLIPS, E.P. 1935. Camptorrhiza schlechteri. Flowering Plants of Africa
  • SÖLCH, A., ROESSLER, H. & MERXMÜLLER, H. 1970. Liliaceae. Prodromus einer Flora von Südwestafrika 147

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