Bulb globose, with outer covering of thin, brown tunics
Leaves 2, contemporary with flowers, spreading, ovate, glabrous, dark green, sometimes with darker green spots
Inflorescence a capitate head, situated between the leaves; peduncle terete, lengthening in fruit; bracts small and linear
Flowers golden yellow, regular; pedicels long, firm, recurved in fruit
Tepals fused below forming a tube; lobes erect or erect-spreading, linear-oblong, somewhat longer than tube
Stamens 6, in one whorl, longer than tepals; filaments fused, forming a long, cylindrical tube arising from mouth of perianth tube, top of filament tube forming a disc through which the style emerges, free portion of filaments erect-spreading; anthers versatile, introrse
Fruit an obtriangular capsule, valves lengthened above into notched, attenuated transparent wings; dehiscing loculicidally
Seeds globose, black, smooth
x = 8 (1 report, polyploidy)
Nomenclature:
Androsiphon Schltr.
Schlechter: 147 (1924)
Barker: 21 (1936)
Jessop: 432 (1976)
Brandham: 124, t. 155 (1990)
Distribution & Notes:
Southern Africa: Species 1: Androsiphon capensis Schltr., Northern Cape, endemic to Calvinia District
Flowering recorded in June, August and September
References:
BARKER, W.F. 1936. Amphisiphon, a new genus of Liliaceae. Journal of South African Botany 2
BRANDHAM, P. 1990. Androsiphon capense. Kew Magazine 7
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
SCHLECHTER, R. 1924. Drei neue Gattungen der Liliaceen aus Südafrika. Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 9
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