Drimia delagoensis

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

Drimia delagoensis is a plant of the genus Drimia in the family of asparagaceae (Asparagaceae). The specific epithet delagoensis refers to the occurrence of the species in Delagoa Bay .

description

Drimia delagoensis grows with above-ground, single or dividing bulbs and then forms small groups of up to five plants. The spherical onions have a diameter of 7 to 10 centimeters. They have large, brick-shaped, loosely succulent onion scales. The spherical, purple-green scales are 3.5 inches long and just as wide. Their dry parts are brown. Older scales - before they dry up completely - turn brown and are clipped at the top. The fleshy, stalk-round roots have a diameter of 3 millimeters. The five to ten green to blue leaves are ascending and appear with the flowers. Your linear-pointed leaf blade is 14 to 50 centimeters long. The top is rutted, the bottom convex.

The upright, up to 50-flowered inflorescence reaches a length of 45 to 50 centimeters. The pedicel-round inflorescence stalk had a diameter of 6 millimeters at its base. The inconspicuous flower-bearing bracts are triangular-lanceolate, white and 2 millimeters long. They dry up before blooming. The flowers are on 5 to 6 millimeter long peduncles . The spread to pendulous flowers are 5 to 10 millimeters apart. The star-shaped bloom reaches a diameter of about 6 millimeters. Their upright, linear, obovate tepals are white with a purple central stripe. They are 6 millimeters long and 2 millimeters wide. The tips are blunt. The stamens are 3 millimeters long. The stamens are thread-like, the anthers 0.5 millimeters long. The upright stylus has a length of 3 millimeters. The flowering period is spring and early summer.

The elongated egg-shaped fruits are 10 to 12 millimeters long and 4 to 5 millimeters wide. They contain winged, elongated, black seeds with a length of 7 millimeters and a width of 1.5 millimeters.

Systematics and distribution

Drimia delagoensis is widespread in the dry savannahs of the Lebombo Mountains in the border area of the South African provinces of Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal with Mozambique and Swaziland .

The first description as Urginea delagoensis by John Gilbert Baker was published in 1897. John Peter Jessop put the species in 1977 in the genus Drimia .

proof

literature

Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld : Urginea multifolia . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 297 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 63.
↑ 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, p. 467 ( online ).
^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 43, Number 4, 1977, p. 294.

Web links

Commons : Drimia delagoensis - collection of images, videos and audio files

Drimia delagoensis in the Red List of South African Plants

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 63.

[2] 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, p. 467 ( online ).

[3] Journal of South African Botany . Volume 43, Number 4, 1977, p. 294.