Drimia anomala

Drimia anomala
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily :	Scilloideae
Genre :	Drimia
Type :	Drimia anomala
Scientific name
	Drimia anomala
	( Baker ) Baker

Drimia anomala is a plant of the genus Drimia in the family of asparagaceae (Asparagaceae). The specific epithet anomala is derived from the Greek word anomales , anomalos for 'deviating' 'and refers to thedifferent characteristicscompared to Ornithogalum .

description

Drimia anomala grows with individual, above-ground, spherical to pear-shaped bulbs with a length of 5 to 8 centimeters and a diameter of 5 to 8 centimeters. The onions have fleshy, green onion scales that dry up with a gray-translucent look. Their stalk-round, fleshy roots have a diameter of 2 millimeters. The single leaves , sometimes two, appear with the flowers. It is dark green, ascending to spreading, stiffly succulent and terete. The foliage leaf is up to 30 centimeters long and has a diameter of 4 to 6 millimeters. It is surrounded at the base by gray, papery sheaths and dries up from the tip.

The up to 80-flowered, upright inflorescence is up to 60 centimeters long. The lower bracts are broadly ovate, spurred and 1 centimeter long. The early sloping upper bracts have a length of 1 millimeter. The spread out, yellowish green flowers are up to 8 millimeter long peduncles . Your bent back tepals are fused together over a length of about 5 millimeters. The outer tepals are 1 millimeter, the inner 2 millimeters wide. The stamens are up to 4 millimeters long. The egg-shaped ovary is 2 millimeters long. The upright stylus reaches a length of 1.2 to 2 millimeters.

The ellipsoidal, elongated fruits are 4 to 6 millimeters long. They contain angular seeds with a length of 1.5 to 2 millimeters.

Systematics and distribution

Drimia anomala is common in the South African provinces of Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal in the Succulent Karoo and Bushveld .

The first description as Ornithogalum anomalum by John Gilbert Baker was published in 1870. In 1897 he placed the species in the genus Drimia .

Synonyms are Geschollia anomala (Baker) Speta (2001) and Urginea eriospermoides Baker (1887).

proof

literature

Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld : Drimia anomala . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 289 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 11.
^ W. Wilson Saunders (Ed.): Refugium Botanicum; or, Figures and Descriptions from Living Specimens of Little Known of New Plants of Botanical Interest . Volume 3, 1870, plate 178 ( online ).
↑ William T. Thiselton-Dyer (Ed.) Flora Capensis; being a systematic description of the plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria, & port Natal . Volume 6, London 1897, pp. 442-443 ( online ).

Web links

Drimia anomala in the Red List of South African Plants
Herbarium evidence

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 11.

[2] W. Wilson Saunders (Ed.): Refugium Botanicum; or, Figures and Descriptions from Living Specimens of Little Known of New Plants of Botanical Interest . Volume 3, 1870, plate 178 ( online ).

[3] William T. Thiselton-Dyer (Ed.) Flora Capensis; being a systematic description of the plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria, & port Natal . Volume 6, London 1897, pp. 442-443 ( online ).