WorldFloraDB - Dipcadi viride

Characteristics

Plants 15-200 cm.. Bulb 1-5 cm. in diameter, occasionally bulbiliferous.. Leaves 1-15, filiform or linear to broadly lanceolate, up to 1 m. long, 1-31 mm. wide, margin sometimes undulate or with minute teeth.. Scapes 1-3, smooth.. Raceme with 4-35 flowers; pedicels smooth, 2-11 mm., up to 18 mm. in fruit; bracts 2-30 mm.. Flowers yellow-green, green to brown.. Perianth-segments 8-17 mm., outer with a 1-22 mm. long caudate appendage.. Filaments 1.5-7 mm.. Ovary 3-7 mm. long, 2 mm. across.. Capsule 5-11 mm. long, 9-14 mm. in diameter.. Seeds 4-7 mm. long.

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A small hairless plant with a white bulb. It can have runners with small bulbs. The leaves occur as 1-4 per shoot. They vary in size but are long and sword shaped. They clasp the stem at the base. The flowers occur as 10 small flowers in a loose arrangement around the stalk. The stalk can be 20-50 cm long. The individual flowers are small and thread like. The fruit are on long angular capsules. The seeds are flat, round, shiny and black.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	herb
Growth support	free-standing
Foliage retention	evergreen
Sexuality	hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter)	0.15 - 2.0
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Environment

It is a subtropical plant. It grows in open woodland and wet grass savannah. In Nigeria it has been recorded at 2,300 m above sea level.

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Usage

CAUTION: Some closely related Dipcadi are used as rat poison. The bulbs and leaves are used as a vegetable. The bulbs are baked in ashes.

Uses	medicinal poison
Edible	bulbs leaves
Therapeutic use	Potherb (unspecified), Root (unspecified)
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Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:534010-1
WFO ID	wfo-0000765492
COL ID	36FDV
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	-
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Hyacinthus viridis Lachenalia viridis Scilla viridis Uropetalon umbonatum Uropetalon tacazzeanum Uropetalon depressum Uropetalon minimum Dipcadi bussei Dipcadi elatum Dipcadi erlangeri Dipcadi filamentosum Dipcadi filifolium Dipcadi geniculatum Dipcadi glaucescens Dipcadi lividescens Dipcadi longicauda Uropetalon becazzeanum Uropetalon viride Ornithogalum viride Albuca hyacinthoides Dipcadi arenarium Dipcadi cinnabarinum Dipcadi comosum Dipcadi conrathii Dipcadi hockii Dipcadi kerstingii Dipcadi lanceolatum Dipcadi lateritium Dipcadi minimum Dipcadi nitens Dipcadi occidentale Dipcadi palustre Dipcadi rupicola Dipcadi stenophyllum Dipcadi sulcatum Dipcadi tacazzeanum Dipcadi umbonatum Dipcadi unifolium Dipcadi wentzelianum Zuccangnia viridis Zuccagnia viridis Dipcadi helenae Dipcadi kelleri Dipcadi viride

WorldFloraDB 2024

Dipcadi viride (L.) Moench

Species

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Asparagaceae > Dipcadi