Ornithogalum rupestre L.F.

Species

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Asparagaceae > Ornithogalum

Characteristics

Plants (30-)50-150(-200) mm high. Bulb subglobose, (7-)10-15 mm diam., outer tunics whitish or brownish. Leaves (2)3-10, subterete or canaliculate, 20-110 x 1-3 mm, glabrous. Raceme corymbose to subcorymbose, 5-30 mm long at flowering, elongating to 10-50 mm in fruit, (1)2-10(-15)-flowered; lowermost pedicels 2-18 mm long, elongating to 6-25 mm in fruit; bracts ovate, whitish with upper part brownish, acute or acuminate, usually shorter than pedicels but longer in small plants, lowermost (4-)6-15 mm long. Flowers usually yellow or orange, rarely white or pinkish; outer tepals ovate-lanceolate, inner obovate, 6-12 x 3.5-5.5 mm. Stamens ± half as long as tepals; filaments 3-5 mm long, whitish or yellowish, outer linear to subulate, inner lanceolate. Ovary ovoid, 3-4 mm long, yellowish; style short, erect, 1-2 mm long. Capsule fusiform to oblong-ovoid, 10 mm long, 3-lobed, apiculate. Seeds angular-pyriform or comma-shaped, 0.75 mm long, rugulose.
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Bulbous geophyte, 50-150 mm tall, tunics soft, whitish or grey. Leaves suberect, subterete to linear-canaliculate, glaucous, margins smooth. Flowers suberect on pedicels 2-18 mm long, yellow to orange (rarely whitish in CCR), tepals ovate, 6-12 mm long, filaments subulate-lanceolate, ovary yellowish, style very short. Capsules ovoid, ± 10 mm long, seeds angular, ± 1 mm across.
Bulbous geophyte, 2-25 cm. Leaves spreading, terete, succulent. Flowers with large bracts, few, cream-coloured to yellow or orange, style very short or stigma sessile.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.05 - 0.15
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Environment

Light -
Soil humidity 10-12
Soil texture 6-8
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Usage

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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 30 - 180
Germination temperacture (C°) 12 - 15
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Distribution

Ornithogalum rupestre world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:539491-1
WFO ID wfo-0000710936
COL ID 6T8JD
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Ornithogalum virgineum Ornithogalum rupestre Eliokarmos rupestris Ornithogalum witteklipense