Drimia platyphylla

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

Drimia platyphylla is a plant of the genus Drimia in the family of asparagaceae (Asparagaceae). The specific epithet platyphylla is derived from the Greek words platys for 'flat', 'wide' and phyllon for 'leaf'.

description

Drimia platyphylla grows with egg-shaped-spherical, white, softly succulent bulbs that are up to 5 inches long and 4 inches wide. The two almost opposite leaves are flat and spread horizontally. Your linear to ovate-elliptical leaf blade is up to 4 inches long and 2.5 inches wide. The upper side of the leaf is velvety, the tip of the leaf blunt.

The inflorescence reaches a length of up to 30 centimeters. The upright, papillate hairy flower stem is reddish brown. The up to 50-flowered panicle is up to 12 centimeters long. The egg-shaped-triangular, pointed bracts are up to 2 millimeters long and spurred. The flowers are on peduncles up to 10 millimeters long . The urn-shaped, hanging flower cover has a length of up to 6 millimeters. Their brownish, elongated tepals are up to 6 millimeters long and 2.5 millimeters wide. They have grown together in the lower part. The stamens are fused at their base. Their free parts are hairy. The yellowish anthers are up to 1.8 millimeters long. The ovoid ovary has a length of up to 2 millimeters. The heyday is midsummer.

The egg-shaped, bare fruits are up to 2 millimeters long. They contain elongated, flat seeds up to 4 millimeters in length.

Systematics and distribution

Drimia platyphylla is widespread in the fynbos of quartzitic sandstones in the South African province of Western Cape .

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

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 187.
  2. ^ Bertil Nordenstam: Studies in South African Liliaceae. III. The genus Rhadamanthus . In: Botaniska Notiser . Volume 123, 1970, pp. 171-174
  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.

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