Bulb globose, with outer covering of thin, brown tunics
Leaves 2(3), contemporary with flowers, spreading, ovate; bases enfolding peduncle; dark green
Inflorescence a congested raceme forming a capitate head of several to many flowers; peduncle short; bracts small
Flowers yellow to yellowish green above, white below, regular; sweetly scented; pedicels short
Tepals fused for most of their length, forming a tube; lobes erect, very short
Stamens 6, in one whorl, arising below middle of perianth tube, exserted from perianth; filaments fused for ± two-thirds of their length, free portion bright yellow, erect-spreading; anthers yellow, dorsifixed, introrse
Fruit an ovoid-acuminate capsule, roundly angled, membranous, dehiscing septicidally; style persistent
Seeds globose, shiny black
x = 8 (1 report, polyploidy)
Nomenclature:
Amphisiphon W. F. Barker
Barker: 19 (1936)
Jessop: 432 (1976)
Brandham: 58, t. 123 (1989)
Distribution & Notes:
Southern Africa: Species 1, Amphisiphon stylosa W.F.Barker, Northern Cape, endemic to Calvinia District
Flowering in June
References:
BARKER, W.F. 1936. Amphisiphon, a new genus of Liliaceae. Journal of South African Botany 2
BRANDHAM, P. 1989. Amphisiphon stylosa. Kew Magazine 6
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
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