Trachyandra revoluta Kunth

Species

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Asphodelaceae > Trachyandra

Characteristics

Plants up to 50 cm high, usually smaller. Roots many, crowded, yellow, somewhat swollen, fusiform, firm, the circle of new roots produced above the old one. Rhizome small, discoid. Squamae narrow, tubular, reddish-brown, surrounding each leaf-base and also the scapes, separately (no squamae surrounding the shoots). Leaves erect or prostrate when older, sometimes slightly undulate or with a spiral twist, 10-40 cm long, 1-4 mm in diam. linear, firm and somewhat fleshy in texture, dark green, scabrid, at least when young, especially on the margins. Inflorescence a much branched, lax, pseudo-dichotomous, divaricate raceme, usually overtopping the leaves; scape slender, up to 30 cm long, 3-6 mm in diam., scabrid especially at the base when young; bracts small, 2-5 mm long; pedicels up to 1 cm, erect in bud and in fruit, recurved during anthesis. Flowers pendulous, perianth recurved forming a “ball” around pedicel, segments 8-10 mm long, narrow, white, brown-keeled and with 2 yellow maculae near the base; filaments yellow below, dimorphous, outer sparsely, inner densely shaggy in lower half, and curved around the ovary; ovary with ca. 10 ovules per cell. Capsule sub-globose, greyish brown, ca. 2 mm in diam., tetrahedral.
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Perennial, grass-like herb. Leaves linear, sometimes slightly undulate or with lax spiral twist, 0.1-0.4 m long, scabrid when young. Inflorescence much branched, divaricate raceme, up to 0.3 m long, scabrid when young; pedicels erect in fruit, up to 10 mm long. Flowers white with brown keel, with two yellow spots near base. Flowering time Aug.-Nov. Fruit a subglobose, glabrous capsule.
Rhizomatous perennial, up to 0.9 m tall, roots many, more-or-less wiry and spreading, proliferating from stolons. Leaves many, linear, 1-4 mm wide, firm, scabrid, emerging from a short horizontal rhizome. Flowers white, spotted at base, nodding, in a divaricate panicle, scape scabrid below. Capsule ellipsoidal, ± 5 mm long, held erect.
An erect plant that has a rhizome. It grows 50 cm tall. It grows from a yellow slightly swollen root. The leaves are erect and slightly wavy. They are narrow and somewhat fleshy. The flowers are in a loose branches group. The flowers hang down. They are 8-10 mm long and white. The fruit is an almost round grey-brown capsule.
Rhizomatous perennial to 90 cm, roots many, ± swollen. Leaves many, linear, scabrid, sheathed individually by cataphylls. Flowers in a divaricate panicle, nodding, white, tepals recurved, base of peduncle scabrid.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.5
Root system rhizome
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a Mediterranean climate plant. It grows near the coast and shoreline.
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Soil texture 3-6
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Usage

The flower heads are stewed.
Uses medicinal
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Cultivation

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Images

Trachyandra revoluta unspecified picture

Distribution

Trachyandra revoluta world distribution map, present in Namibia and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:542427-1
WFO ID wfo-0000747824
COL ID 7CL9Y
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Phalangium elongatum Phalangium revolutum Trachyandra elongata Anthericum elongatum Anthericum revolutum Dilanthes revoluta Trachyandra revoluta