PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / LILIALES / COLCHICACEAE / COLCHICEAE / ORNITHOGLOSSUM / ZEYHERI
Corm subglobose to ovoid, 1.5-3 cm in diam., usually lobed, with one or sometimes two ± vertical, basal lobes up to 1 cm thick and 4 cm long, with brown tunics. Old leaf-bases forming a sheath-like neck up to 12 cm long, sometimes rather thick and firm, many-layered. Cataphyll brownish (when dry), apically dilated, truncate or ovate, mucronate. Stem above-ground part short, only 2-5 cm high. Leaves 2-several, closely-set, together with the leaf-like bracts, on the short stem, suberect-erecto-patent, linear-lanceolate, 3-10 cm long, 3-10(-12) mm wide, distinctly channelled, glaucous, very undulate, sometimes crispately so. Raceme (1-)3-10-flowered, much contracted, hidden among the leaves and bracts. Bracts leaf-like, but successively narrower and shorter, much longer than the pedicels. Pedicels 1.5-3(-4) cm long, at first erect, soon becoming recurved, in the fruiting stage highly reflexed. Perianth actinomorphic, ± campanulate, 1-2 cm in diam. Tepals suberect or somewhat spreading, but not becoming reflexed, linear, 12-15 mm long, 1-2(-3) mm wide, broadest about the middle and somewhat involute, pale greenish, usually somewhat purplish towards both tip and base, with 6-9, usually faint, veins, subacute; claw indistinct, 1-1.5 mm long, adaxially broadly canaliculate. Nectary margin simple, concave. Filaments erect or suberect, ± straight, but apically curved, 7-11 mm long, 0.5-0.9 mm thick, thickest about or below the middle, uniformly white or light coloured, or apically somewhat purplish-brown. Anthers oblong, 2.2-3 mm long, 0.8-1.5 mm wide, slightly curved, light to medium brown. Styles 8-12 mm long, suberect, straight or rather flexuous, basally connate for a short distance (less than 0.3 mm), white or light-coloured, with a small apical stigma. Ovary oblong-obovoid, ca. 3 mm long and 1.5 mm broad, green. Capsule short, subglobose or transversely oblong-pyriform, 0.5-1.2 cm long, 0.7-1.5 cm broad. Seeds ca. 3-10, globose, 3-3.5 mm in diam., light- or chocolate-brown, lustreless, smooth (but at high magnification 'micro-reticulate-ruminate'), with a distinct keel- or wing-like raphe up to 0.4 mm high, chalaza often projecting further, up to 0.6 mm high. From: Nordenstam, RB. 1982. A monograph of the genus Ornithoglossum (Liliaceae). Opera Bot. 64: 5-51. [10.1111/j.1756-1051.1983.tb01058.x] [All rights reserved]
Cormous geophyte, subacaulescent, stem up to 50 mm tall. Leaves 2-several, congested, linear-lanceolate, undulate or crisped. Flowers erect but nodding in fruit, actinomorphic, pale greenish, flushed purple, fruit-scented, tepals suberect, 12-15 mm long, nectary pouch-like; filaments slightly swollen medially, 7-11 mm long. From: Manning, JC. 2013. Colchicaceae. In: DA Snijman (ed.), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 2: The Extra Cape flora. Strelitzia 30: 57-62. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
The inconspicuous flowers are more or less hidden among the leaves and leaf-like bracts, which are close-set on the short stem. The undulate leaves, the long filaments, and perhaps also the flowering time, indicate a relationship with O. undulatum and O. gracile. From: Nordenstam, RB. 1982. A monograph of the genus Ornithoglossum (Liliaceae). Opera Bot. 64: 5-51. [10.1111/j.1756-1051.1983.tb01058.x] [All rights reserved]
In pockets of granitic or quartzitic sand on rock shelves or stony ground, or on sandy plains. From: Nordenstam, RB. 1982. A monograph of the genus Ornithoglossum (Liliaceae). Opera Bot. 64: 5-51. [10.1111/j.1756-1051.1983.tb01058.x] [All rights reserved]
Gravelly pockets on granite or sandy flats. From: Manning, JC. 2013. Colchicaceae. In: DA Snijman (ed.), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 2: The Extra Cape flora. Strelitzia 30: 57-62. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
A scattered Namaquan distribution with a rather narrow latitudinal range, from Olifants River northwards to the Springbok area. From: Nordenstam, RB. 1982. A monograph of the genus Ornithoglossum (Liliaceae). Opera Bot. 64: 5-51. [10.1111/j.1756-1051.1983.tb01058.x] [All rights reserved]
Richtersveld and central Namaqualand to Vredendal. From: Manning, JC. 2013. Colchicaceae. In: DA Snijman (ed.), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 2: The Extra Cape flora. Strelitzia 30: 57-62. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
May
550 to 950 m
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Names and Sources
Ornithoglossum glaucum Salisb. var. zeyheri Baker
Ornithoglossum undulatum (Willd.) Spreng. var. zeyheri (Baker) T.Durand & Schinz
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Liliales
FAMILY Colchicaceae
TRIBE Colchiceae
GENUS Ornithoglossum
SPECIES zeyheri
10 results for Ornithoglossum zeyheri (Baker) B.Nord.
Barcode: PRE0628706-0 Collector(s) & number: Hugo, L, 3056 | 1982-4-
South Africa, Northern Cape, NAMAQUALAND; BETWEEN NABABEEP AND O'KIEP.
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Barcode: PRE0692665-0 Collector(s) & number: Zietsman, PC, 772 | 1985-9-15
South Africa, Northern Cape, PLOEGBERG; TUSSEN PLOEGBERG EN STINKFONTEINBERGE. KLIPKOPPIE.
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Barcode: PRE0863255-0 Collector(s) & number: Johannsmeier, AE, 163 | 2009-8-20
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqua National Park, Graskom Farm.
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Barcode: PRE0095100-0 Collector(s) & number: Lewis, GJ, SAM 63670 | 1948-7-29
South Africa, Northern Cape, CALVINIA DIV.; HANTAM MT.; TIER HOEK NEK
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Barcode: PRE0712012-0 Collector(s) & number: Pienaar, BJ, 949 | 1987-8-25
South Africa, Northern Cape, NABABEEP AREA; ON O'KIEP ROAD. BELOW ROCKY AREA OF KOPPIE ON LOWER SANDBANK.
General notes: Low on ground. Leaves crinckly.
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Barcode: NBG0205428-0 Collector(s) & number: Helme, NA, 3944 | 2006-5-18
South Africa, Northern Cape, Namaqualand. 12 km NEof Koiingnaas, 2 km SE of Heidons. 30°06'37.1"S; 17°26'10.1"E.
General notes: Fynbos biome. Namaqualand Sand Fynbos. Plain. Well-drained, sandy soil. Full sun. No slope. No biotic effect seen. Flowers present, sweet apple scented, held erect. Petals dark. Fruit absent. Rare. Plant height 0.10 m.
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Barcode: NBG0192770-0 Collector(s) & number: Manning, JC, 2781 | 2002-8-23
South Africa, Northern Cape, Spektakel Pass, 3 km W of Kommagas road.
General notes: Succulent Karoo. Valley. Well-drained, gravel soil. Granite. Full sun. Geophyte.
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Barcode: PRE0240584-0 Collector(s) & number: Rosch, MW, 358 | 1974-4-19
South Africa, Northern Cape, NAMAQUALAND; SPRINGBOK; HESTER MALAN VELDBLOMRESERVAAT; W.-RIVIER.
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2013
SERIES CHAPTER
Colchicaceae Manning, JCIn: DA Snijman (ed.), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 2: The Extra Cape flora. Strelitzia 30: 57-62
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
1982
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
A monograph of the genus Ornithoglossum (Liliaceae) Nordenstam, RBOpera Botanica a Societate Botanica Lundensi 64: 5-51
No results found for Ornithoglossum zeyheri (Baker) B.Nord.
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