Drimia fasciata

Drimia fasciata
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily :	Scilloideae
Genre :	Drimia
Type :	Drimia fasciata
Scientific name
	Drimia fasciata
	( B.Nord. ) JCManning & Goldblatt

Drimia fasciata is a plant of the genus Drimia in the family of asparagaceae (Asparagaceae). The specific epithet fasciata comes from Latin and means 'banded'.

description

Drimia fasciata grows with egg to pear-shaped bulbs that are up to 4 inches long and 3 inches in diameter. Their papery onion scales are gray-brown. Basal leaf sheaths are transversely banded. The individual leaves are thread-shaped.

The inflorescence reaches a length of up to 25 centimeters. The upright flower stem is brownish. The loose, up to 30-flowered panicle is up to 11 centimeters long. The egg-shaped-triangular bracts are up to 1.5 millimeters long and spurred. The flowers are on stalks up to 11 millimeters long . The bell-shaped, hanging flower cover is up to 5.5 millimeters long. Their white to pale yellow tepals are elongated. The stamens are free. The green to yellowish green anthers are up to 2.3 millimeters long. The spherical, egg-shaped ovary has a length of up to 2 millimeters. The flowering time is spring.

Systematics and distribution

Drimia fasciata is widespread in dry savannahs in the North Cape province of South Africa.

The first description as Rhadamanthus fasciatus by Rune Bertil Nordenstam was published in 1970. John Charles Manning and Peter Goldblatt put the species in the genus Drimia in 2000 .

proof

literature

Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld : Rhadamanthus fasciatus . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 295 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 81.
^ Bertil Nordenstam: Studies in South African Liliaceae. III. The genus Rhadamanthus . In: Botaniska Notiser . Volume 123, 1970, pp. 174-177.
^ P. Goldblatt, J. Manning: Cape plants. A conspectus of the Cape flora of South Africa . (= Strelitzia , Volume 9.). Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis 2000, ISBN 0620262362 , p. 711.

Web links

Drimia fasciata 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. 81.

[2] Bertil Nordenstam: Studies in South African Liliaceae. III. The genus Rhadamanthus . In: Botaniska Notiser . Volume 123, 1970, pp. 174-177.

[3] P. Goldblatt, J. Manning: Cape plants. A conspectus of the Cape flora of South Africa . (= Strelitzia , Volume 9.). Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis 2000, ISBN 0620262362 , p. 711.