Syringodea derustensis M.p.de Vos

Species

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Characteristics

Plants 50-80 mm long. Corm with an oblique basal ridge c. 5 mm long. Leaves 3-5, lanceolate or lanceolate-linear, sometimes conduplicate, curved, spreading, subobtuse, 30-60 x 3-6 mm, often slightly swollen. Bracts reaching above the middle of the perianth tube. Flowers 45-60 mm long, the limb 30-40 mm across, pale violet or sometimes white. Perianth tube 25-35 mm long, widened at the top to 2 mm in diam.; segments obovate-cuneate, slightly concave, 15-20 x 8-10 mm, obtuse or subobtuse, the inner segments slightly wider than the outer. Filaments 5-6 mm, white; anthers 5-7 mm long. Style 33-38 mm, white; stigmas with spathulate or slightly lacerated tips. Capsule turbinate, ellipsoid or sometimes subglobose, 5-10 mm long.
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Plants 50-80 mm high. Corm ellipsoid, 10-15 x 7-12 mm with basal ridge 4-6 mm wide. Leaves 3 to 5, spreading, linear to lanceolate, plane or weakly conduplicate, 30-60 x 3-6 mm, ciliolate on margins, apices slightly thickened and boat-shaped. Flowers hypocrateriform, pale to deep violet or rarely white; perianth tube trumpet-shaped, widening in distal 5 mm, 25-35 mm long; tepals obovate, 15-20 x 8-10 mm, subacute. Stamens erect; filaments 5-6 mm long, white; anthers suberect, 5-7 mm long, yellow. Style 33-38 mm long, dividing near middle of anthers, branches 4-5 mm long, spathulate or lacerate. Capsules clavate or turbinate, 5-10 mm long. Seeds angled, ± 1.5 mm diam., brown, testa colliculate or partly foveolate.
Cormous geophyte, 5-8 cm, corm turbinate. Leaves 3-5, lanceolate, flattened and prostrate. Flowers violet, rarely white, tube 25-35 mm.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Distribution

Syringodea derustensis world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:441464-1
WFO ID wfo-0000786202
COL ID 542JS
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Synonyms

Syringodea derustensis