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Trachyandra affinis Kunth

Species

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Characteristics

Slender or fairly robust plants up to 1 m high, solitary or a few together. Roots wiry. Rhizome small. Leaves erect, somewhat fleshy, semi-terete to linear, tapering towards the apex, canaliculate above, up to 40 cm long, 8-16 mm broad, usually glabrous, occasionally margin ciliate or lamina pubescent; mouth of tubular base fimbriate. Inflorescence erect, branched, laxly flowered up to 1 m high; scape somewhat compressed, pubescent; bracts small, ovate, acuminate; pedicels usually up to 16 mm long in fruit (up to 4 cm in one variety), erect. Flowers white with spreading perianth segments 12 mm long, immaculate; filaments scabrid; ovary with 6 ovules per cell. Capsule globose, 5 mm in diam. Seeds smooth.
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Perennial, grass-like herb. Leaves linear, semi-terete, up to 0.4 m long, usually glabrous, occasionally pubescent, margins sometimes ciliate. Inflorescence simple or sparsely-branched raceme, up to 1 m high, with pubescent peduncle; pedicels erect in fruit, up to 16 mm long. Flowers white. Flowering time Sept.-June. Fruit a glabrous capsule.
Rhizomatous perennial to 80 cm, roots many, wiry. Leaves lanceolate to linear, usually pubescent. Flowers in a sparsely branched raceme with pubescent peduncle, often developing axillary plantlets, white.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.0
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Distribution

Trachyandra affinis world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:542370-1
WFO ID wfo-0000747866
COL ID 57PNC
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Synonyms

Trachyandra affinis Anthericum longiciliatum Anthericum pseudofalcatum Anthericum pubescens Anthericum affine Anthericum pudicum Anthericum filiforme var. affine Anthericum jacquinianum var. affine
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