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Philydrum Banks ex Gaertn.

Genus

Angiosperms > Commelinales > Philydraceae

Characteristics

Robust, rhizomatous herbs with fibrous roots. Leaves fleshy, many-nerved, glabrous or sparsely woolly. Scapes 1 to several. Inflorescence simple or sparsely-branched, with spikes of 10-25 flowers; flowers axillary in sheathing bracteoles. Perianth lemon-yellow, hairy; outer tepals free, broadly ovate, acute; inner tepals ±adnate to base of staminal filament, spathulate-acute, often irregularly lobed. Anther extrorse, apparently not versatile; locules cochleate; pollen grains in tetrads. Ovary ellipsoidal, imperfectly trilocular with deeply intrusive placentation, densely hairy; style straight; stigma bluntly trilobed. Fruit an oblong-ellipsoidal capsule. Seeds ovoid, spirally striate-tuberculate, with corona.
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Leaves distichous, ensiform. Spikes usually simple, pubescent. Perianth yellow, thin, 2 outer segments free, 2 inner ones basally ± adnate to filament. Anther coiled; pollen grains in tetrads. Ovary superior, 1-loculed. Capsule usually loculicidal. Seeds narrowly ovoid; testa spirally striate.
Outer tepals free, inner ones more or less united at the base with the filament. Anther spirally twisted. Pollengrains in tetrads. Ovary 1-locular. Capsule loculicid. Testa spirally striate.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Images

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Distribution

Philydrum world distribution map, present in Andorra, Australia, China, Myanmar, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, Province of China, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:31894-1
WFO ID wfo-4000029249
COL ID 8W2C7
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Synonyms

Philydrum

Lower taxons

Philydrum lanuginosum
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