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Ipheion Raf.

Tristagma à une fleur (fr), Iphéion à une fleur (fr)

Genus

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Amaryllidaceae

Characteristics

Herbs with tunicated bulbs. Roots somewhat fleshy. Leaves basal, linear, flat, with a sheathing base, annual. Inflorescence usually with 1 flower on an erect scape. Flowers bisexual, regular, pedicellate, subtended by a spathe split into 2 valves. Perianth tubular-connate below with 6 spreading lobes above. Stamens 6, 3 inserted near base of perianth tube and 3 higher up; anthers dorsifixed, dehiscing by slits, introrse. Ovary superior, subglobose; ovules numerous per locule; style slender; stigma obscurely trilobed. Fruit a loculicidal capsule. Seeds numerous.
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Low-growing bulbous perennials with oniony smell when bruised. Bulb tunicate. Leaves all basal, linear, ± fleshy, flat, base sheathing. Scape erect; spathe-valves 2. Flowers solitary, pedicellate, tubular below, lobes spreading above. Staminal-filaments without appendages, broadened below, subulate above. Capsule loculicidal. Seeds many. Spp. c.10, of S. America (Uruguay, S. Brazil, Argentina and Chile), see Guaglianone in Darwiniana 17, 1972, 159-242. Adventive sp. 1.
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-11

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Images

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Distribution

Ipheion world distribution map, present in Åland Islands, Australia, France, New Zealand, and Uruguay

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:330285-2
WFO ID wfo-4000019148
COL ID 6N8ZR
BDTFX ID 35847
INPN ID 103675
Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Ipheion

Lower taxons

Ipheion sessile Ipheion sessile Ipheion tweedieanum Ipheion uniflorum
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