Albuca spiralis

Albuca spiralis
	Albuca spiralis
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily :	Scilloideae
Genre :	Albuca
Type :	Albuca spiralis
Scientific name
	Albuca spiralis
	Lf

Albuca spiralis is a plant of the genus Albuca in the family of asparagaceae (Asparagaceae). The specific epithet spiralis comes from Latin , means 'spiral' and refers to the spiral-shaped leaves.

description

Albuca spiralis is a geophyte and grows individually or forms small groups by dividing. The dwarf onions are 8 to 25 millimeters long and 5 to 25 millimeters wide. The onion tips are exposed. The green, fleshy onion scales dry up gray and membranous. The fibrous roots are round. The 15 to 20 green, glandular, downy leaves form a basal rosette . They are erect and spiral at the tips. Your petiolate leaf blade is 2 to 11 inches long and 1 millimeter wide. The top of the leaf is slightly runny at the base. The leaves dry up in summer.

The inflorescence reaches a length of 4 to 5 centimeters and bears one to five nodding flowers that are open a day . The linear-lanceolate, glandular-hairy bracts are up to 18 millimeters long and 4 millimeters wide. The nodding flower stalk is 2 to 2.5 inches long. The yellow flower envelope has a length of up to 1.8 centimeters. All stamens are fertile. The prismatic pen is as long as the ovary . The scars have three long fine tips. The obovate-ellipsoidal to spherical ovary is six-furrowed and has light green warts in the central parts. The flowering time is spring.

Nothing is known about the fruits and seeds .

Systematics and distribution

Albuca Spiralis 'Frizzle Sizzle' with dried, open and still closed flowers (from bottom to top) and two regrowing flower stalks

Albuca spiralis is widespread in the Western Cape province of South Africa in the winter rain areas of the Renosterveld .

The first description by the son of Carl von Linné was published in 1782.

Synonyms are Falconera spiralis (Lf) Salisb. (1866, nom. Inval.), Ornithogalum circinatum J.C. Manning & Goldblatt (2004, nom. Illeg.) And Ornithogalum volutare J.C. Manning & Goldblatt (2006).

The cultivar Albuca spiralis 'Frizzle Sizzle' was patented in 2011. It differs from the type u. a. through thicker and more spiral leaves and higher growth.

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literature

Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld : Albuca spiralis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 288 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 225.
↑ Supplementum plantarum Systematis vegetabilium editionis decimae tertiae, Generum plantarum editionis sextae, et Specierum plantarum editionis secunda . 1782, p. 196 (online) .
↑ Albuca spiralis . In: R. Govaerts: World Checklist of Asparagaceae . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (accessed April 20, 2013).
↑ US patent Frizzle Sizzle Albuca plans named 'Frizzle Sizzle' US patent USPP22954 P2 with plant description.

Web links

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Albuca spiralis in the Red List of South African Plants
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[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 225.

[2] Supplementum plantarum Systematis vegetabilium editionis decimae tertiae, Generum plantarum editionis sextae, et Specierum plantarum editionis secunda . 1782, p. 196 (online) .

[3] Albuca spiralis . In: R. Govaerts: World Checklist of Asparagaceae . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (accessed April 20, 2013).

[4] US patent Frizzle Sizzle Albuca plans named 'Frizzle Sizzle' US patent USPP22954 P2 with plant description.