Drimia karooica

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

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

description

Drimia karooica grows with group-forming, elongated spherical bulbs with a diameter of up to 4 centimeters. The exposed, green, succulent onion scales dry up gray at their tips. The up to six, green, ribbon-shaped, lanceolate leaves are spread out. Their bald and shiny leaf blades are up to 8 inches long and 2 inches wide. The tip of the leaf is pointed and has an attached tip.

The up to 30-flowered inflorescence reaches a length of up to 20 centimeters. The flower stem is erect, the bracts membrane-like. The flowers are on stalks up to 8 millimeters long . The bell-shaped flower shell is mauve. The stamens are fused at their base. The anthers are 1 millimeter long and the ovary ovoid.

Systematics and distribution

Drimia karooica is widespread in rock crevices in the South African province of Western Cape in the Little and Big Karoo .

The first description as Rhadamanthus karooicus by Anna Amelia Obermeyer was published in 1980. John Charles Manning and Peter Goldblatt put the species in the genus Drimia in 2000 .

proof

literature

Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld : Rhadamanthus karooicus . 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. 125.
^ Anna Amelia Obermeyer: Notes on African plants: Liliaceae. A new subgenus Rhadamanthopsis and two new species of Rhadamanthus . In: Bothalia . Volume 13, Numbers 1-2, 1980, pp. 138-139. ( PDF )
^ 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. 712.

Web links

Drimia karooica 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. 125.

[2] Anna Amelia Obermeyer: Notes on African plants: Liliaceae. A new subgenus Rhadamanthopsis and two new species of Rhadamanthus . In: Bothalia . Volume 13, Numbers 1-2, 1980, pp. 138-139. ( PDF )

[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. 712.