Drimia secunda

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

Drimia Secunda is a plant of the genus Drimia in the family of asparagaceae (Asparagaceae). The specific epithet secunda comes from Latin and means 'one-sided'.

description

Drimia secunda grows with loose and open onions , the onion scales of which form a rosette. They are club-shaped to spindle-shaped, succulent, drawn together towards the tip, up to 4 millimeters long and 2 centimeters wide. Their linear, thread-like leaves are 8 inches long and 1.5 millimeters wide. The tip of the leaf is blunt.

The up to 25-flowered, one-sided inflorescence reaches a length of up to 5 centimeters. The egg-shaped bracts are up to 2 millimeters long and spurred. The flowers are on peduncles up to 2 millimeters long . The bell-shaped flower shell has a length of up to 5 millimeters. Their brownish tepals are fused together in their lower half. The stamens are fused at their base, the free parts are thread-shaped. The light yellow anthers are up to 1.6 millimeters long. The almost spherical ovary has a length of up to 2.5 millimeters. The flowering time is spring.

Systematics and distribution

Drimia secunda is common in the Succulent Karoo in the southwest of Namibia .

The first description as Rhadamanthus secundus 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 secundus . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 296 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 217.
^ Bertil Nordenstam: Studies in South African Liliaceae. III. The genus Rhadamanthus . In: Botaniska Notiser . Volume 123, 1970, pp. 168-171.
^ 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.

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 217.

[2] Bertil Nordenstam: Studies in South African Liliaceae. III. The genus Rhadamanthus . In: Botaniska Notiser . Volume 123, 1970, pp. 168-171.

[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.