Bulbinella nana P.L.Perry

Species

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Characteristics

Plants small, up to 0.25 m above ground, solitary. Roots fascicled, 10-30, swollen, up to 60 mm long, 4 mm at widest near base of stem, gradually tapering. Fibrous sheathing neck of numerous short fibres up to 15 mm long, fine and straight. Leaves 10-20, equal, erect; base of leaves not sheathing but surrounded by two membranous, colourless cataphylls, longitudinally dark veined; lamina narrowly filiform, ±40 mm long at anthesis, later lengthening to 100 mm long, 0.5 mm wide, dark green. Raceme compact, rounded to somewhat lax and broadly cylindrical, up to 35 mm long, 16 mm wide, with 15-30 flowers; peduncle terete, up to 160 mm long, 1 mm in diameter, green; bracts closely adpressed to pedicel base and hard to distinguish, 1 mm long, ovate, almost colourless. Flowers stellate to somewhat recurved, 7 mm in diameter; pedicels up to 7 mm long very wiry, green. Tepals oval to elliptic, 3.5 x 1.75 mm, yellow. Filaments filiform, apiculate, up to 3 mm long, 0.5 mm at widest, yellow. Ovary ovoid to globose, barely 1 mm long, 1 mm wide; style cylindrical, 1.5 mm long. Capsule irregularly ovoid, valves 4 mm long, 1.75 mm at widest, pale fawn. Seeds 2.25 mm long, black, with pale orange outer covering forming a wing-like extension all round.
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Delicate, rhizomatous geophyte, up to 250 mm tall with a short, sparsely fibrous neck. Leaves 10-20, fine and filiform, smooth, emerging at flowering. Flowers in a broadly cylindrical raceme, yellow.
Life form perennial
Growth form
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
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Mature height (meter) 0.25
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Soil texture 7-8
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Usage

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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 30 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 12
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Distribution

Bulbinella nana world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:933603-1
WFO ID wfo-0000762483
COL ID NQ59
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Bulbinella nana