Anthericopsis

Engl.
Description: 
Perennial, completely glabrous herbs, dormant in dry season; tubers at ends of thin wiry roots. Leaves spirally arranged, all or mostly in a basal rosette, sessile. Inflorescence sometimes subsessile at first flowering, eventually long-pedunculate, scapose or subscapose, terminal and axillary, composed of 1 or 2 sessile, contracted, bracteolate cincinni arranged umbel-like at summit of scape. Flowers bisexual, regular, pedicelled. Sepals 3, free, equal, sepaline. Petals 3, free, equal, not clawed. Stamens 3, antepetalous, free, equal; filaments glabrous; staminodes 3, antepetalous, free; antherodes small, unlobed. Ovary 3-locular, 3-valved; ovules many. Fruit a 3-valved capsule. Seeds 8
Distribution: 
Monotypic: Anthericopsis sepalosa (C.B.Cl.) Engl. (= Aneilema sepalosa C.B.Cl.; Gillettia sepalosa (C.B.Cl.) Rendle), eastern trop. Afr.; sthn trop. Afr.: Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique.
Source: 
SSTA
Classification: 
COMMELINACEAE

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Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith