Drimia uniflora

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

Drimia uniflora is a plant of the genus Drimia in the family of asparagaceae (Asparagaceae). The specific epithet uniflora is derived from the Latin words uni for 'a' and -florus for '-blütig'.

description

Drimia uniflora is a perennial plant whose dwarf, tufted, surface or underground bulbs are whitish and spherical and have a length of up to 16 millimeters.

The inflorescence is reduced to a one- to two-flowered panicle . The two spurred bracts are up to 1 millimeter long. The nodding, white to pink-colored flower envelope is tubular and has a length of up to 5 millimeters. Your tepals are fused together in the lower half and the stamens with this tepal tube. The anthers are dorsifix, the ovary sessile and elliptical.

The elongated fruits are translucent loculicidal capsule fruits with a length of up to 5 millimeters. They contain angular seeds that are 0.5 millimeters long .

Systematics and distribution

Drimia uniflora is widespread in rock crevices in South Africa .

The first description as Litanthus pusillus by William Henry Harvey was published in 1844. John Charles Manning and Peter Goldblatt put the species in the genus Drimia in 2000 . They chose the new name Drimia uniflora because the name Drimia pusillus was already taken.

proof

literature

Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld : Litanthus pusillus . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 291 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 248.
^ The London journal of botany . Volume 3, 1844, p. 315, plate 9 ( online ).
^ 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 uniflora in the Red List of South African Plants
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Drimia uniflora inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: Contu, S., 2008. Retrieved May 10, 2014.

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 248.

[2] The London journal of botany . Volume 3, 1844, p. 315, plate 9 ( online ).

[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.