Albuca unifoliata

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

Albuca unifoliata is a plant of the genus Albuca in the family of asparagaceae (Asparagaceae). The specific epithet unifoliata is derived from the Latin words uni for 'one' and foliatus for 'leafy'.

description

Albuca unifoliata is a dwarf, single growing geophyte . Its spherical, yellow onions have a diameter of up to 2 centimeters. The single leaf appears in front of the flowers. Its petiolate, club-shaped leaf blade is 4 centimeters long and 1 centimeter wide.

The upright, paniculate, five- to nine-flowered inflorescence reaches a length of up to 12 centimeters. The triangular pointed bracts are 1 centimeter long. The yellow envelope is star-shaped. Your elliptical tepals are 15 millimeters long and 4 millimeters wide. The stamens are 5 millimeters long. The stamens are filiform, the pen upright, the scar capitately. The flowering time is spring.

The fruits contain flat, semicircular, black seeds .

Systematics and distribution

Albuca unifoliata is widespread in the South African province of Northern Cape in the Succulent Karoo .

The first description by Gordon Douglas Rowley was published in 1975.

Synonyms are Ornithogalum unifoliatum (GDRowley) Oberm. (1978) and Coilonox unifoliatum (GDRowley) Speta (2001).

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literature

Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld : Ornithogalum unifoliatum . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 294 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 248.
^ GD Rowley: A new succulent Albuca (Liliaceae) . In: Ashingtonia . Volume 2, 1975, pp. 55-56.
↑ Albuca unifoliata . In: R. Govaerts: World Checklist of Asparagaceae . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (accessed April 19, 2013).

Web links

Albuca unifoliata 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. 248.

[2] GD Rowley: A new succulent Albuca (Liliaceae) . In: Ashingtonia . Volume 2, 1975, pp. 55-56.

[3] Albuca unifoliata . In: R. Govaerts: World Checklist of Asparagaceae . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (accessed April 19, 2013).