Source:
SSA
Synonym(s):
Chapmanolirion Dinter: 49 (1909).
Description:
Deciduous bulbous herbs. Bulb 20-30 mm in diameter, globose, with a narrow neck. Leaves linear or strap-shaped, glabrous or finely pubescent, often twisted, present during or after flowering. Inflorescence 1-5-flowered; scape solid, relatively short, finely pubescent or glabrous; spathe valves 2, free or variously fused. Flowers regular, white, fugacious; pedicels short. Tepals connate into a long slender tube, cylindric below and funnel-shaped towards mouth; segments equal, spreading. Stamens arising in perigone throat; filaments united into a large conspicuous cup for more than a third of their length, free and incurving distally; anthers linear, dorsifixed, versatile. Ovary subglobose; ovules many per locule; style long, filiform; stigma capitate to obscurely 3-lobed. Capsule loculicidal, spherical to cylindric. Seeds glossy, black, sometimes with a white elaiosome, globose or angled by compression. x = 11.
Distribution:
Species +/- 20; in the Mediterranean region, sthn Asia, the Canary Islands and Africa. Only 1 species: Pancratium tenuifolium Hochst. ex A.Rich., is represented in Namibia, Botswana and the Northern Province of South Africa.
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