Dipcadi marlothii Engl.

Species

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Asparagaceae > Dipcadi

Characteristics

An erect herb plant with a bulb. It grows 50-100 cm high. The bulb is round but extends into a neck. It has a brown leathery skin. The leaves are thin and narrow tapering to a long point. The flowers occur as about 12 flowers around the stalk. The individual flowers are 18 mm long and green. They are shaped like a cylinder but with a tip which rolls back. The fruit are an oblong ridged capsule.
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Bulb ± 1.6 cm. in diameter.. Leaves up to 30, 12 cm. long, 1 mm. wide, with ± 1 mm. long hairs.. Scape 1, up to 30 cm., smooth.. Raceme with 6-11 flowers; pedicels smooth, ± 4 mm.; bracts ± 6 mm.. Perianth-segments ± 11 mm., without caudate appendages.. Capsule and seeds not seen.
Life form perennial
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Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
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Mature height (meter) 0.5 - 1.0
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Environment

A tropical plant. It grows in the Kalahari.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

CAUTION: Some closely related Dipcadi are used as rat poison. The bulbs are eaten raw and also cooked.
Uses medicinal poison
Edible bulbs
Therapeutic use Charm (unspecified), Gonorrhea (unspecified)
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Cultivation

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Images

Dipcadi marlothii unspecified picture

Distribution

Dipcadi marlothii world distribution map, present in Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, eSwatini, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:533962-1
WFO ID wfo-0000765438
COL ID 36FCJ
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Ornithogalum durandianum Dipcadi durandianum Dipcadi ernesti-ruschii Dipcadi marlothii Dipcadi oligotrichum Dipcadi bakerianum