Drimia multifolia

Drimia multifolia
	Drimia multifolia , illustration from the first description
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily :	Scilloideae
Genre :	Drimia
Type :	Drimia multifolia
Scientific name
	Drimia multifolia
	( GJLewis ) Jessop

Drimia multifolia is a plant of the genus Drimia in the family of asparagaceae (Asparagaceae). The specific epithet multifolia is derived from the Latin words multi for 'many' and folius for '-blättig'.

description

Drimia multifolia grows individually with underground, spherical to ellipsoidal bulbs that are up to 4 centimeters long. The up to 50 spirally twisted green leaves appear with the flowers. Your petiolate leaf blade is 10 to 20 centimeters long and 0.2 millimeters wide.

The upright, up to 15-flowered, paniculate inflorescence reaches a length of up to 20 centimeters. The flower stem is bare. The triangular-lanceolate bracts are up to 4 millimeters long and spurred at their base. The flowers are on stalks up to 8 millimeters long . The inflorescence is star-shaped. Their elliptical tepals are white with a brownish central stripe. They are 12 millimeters long and 5 millimeters wide. The tips are blunt. The stamens are 5 millimeters long. The stamens are thread-like. The elongated ellipsoid ovary has a length of 4 millimeters. The upright stylus is 3 millimeters long.

Nothing is known about the fruits and seeds .

Systematics and distribution

Drimia multifolia is widespread in the South African province of North Cape in the Succulent Karoo .

The first description as Urginea multifolia by Gwendoline Joyce Lewis was published in 1952. 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. 159.
^ Annals of the South African Museum . Volume 40, 1952, p. 9.
^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 43, Number 4, 1977, p. 278.

Web links

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

Drimia multifolia 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. 159.

[2] Annals of the South African Museum . Volume 40, 1952, p. 9.

[3] Journal of South African Botany . Volume 43, Number 4, 1977, p. 278.