Drimia media

Drimia media
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily :	Scilloideae
Genre :	Drimia
Type :	Drimia media
Scientific name
	Drimia media
	Jacq. ex Willd.

Drimia media is a plant of the genus Drimia in the family of asparagaceae (Asparagaceae). The specific epithet media comes from Latin , means 'middle' and perhaps refers to the position between related species.

description

Drimia media is an underground geophyte whose egg-shaped bulbs are 3 to 9.5 inches long and 2.5 to 8 inches wide. The reddish onion scales are tightly pressed together. The up to 20 leaves are available at flowering time. They are green, 8 to 40 inches long and ascending to spread out. The succulent leaf blade is petal-round and measures 1.5 to 4 millimeters in diameter.

The upright, paniculate inflorescence is up to 35-flowered and up to 60 centimeters long. The spurred, up to 2.5 millimeters long bracts soon fall off. The outspread flowers are purple. Their bent back, 1 to 1.6 centimeters long tepals are fused together at their base. The linear-lanceolate stamens are fused with the throat of the flower cover. They have a length of up to 0.6 millimeters. The anthers are up to 2 millimeters long. The ovoid ovary has a length of up to 3 millimeters. The upright stylus is 6 to 8 millimeters long.

The elongated fruits are 9 to 11 millimeters long. They contain flattened seeds 6 to 7 millimeters in length.

Systematics and distribution

Drimia media is common in the Western Cape Province of South Africa near the sea or on slopes in the Renosterveld .

The first description by Carl Ludwig Willdenow was published in 1799.

proof

literature

Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld : Drimia media . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 290 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 150.
^ Carl Ludwig Willdenow: Caroli a Linné Species plantarum: exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas . Volume 2, Part 1, 1799, p. 166 ( online ).

Web links

Drimia media 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. 150.

[2] Carl Ludwig Willdenow: Caroli a Linné Species plantarum: exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas . Volume 2, Part 1, 1799, p. 166 ( online ).