Massonia bifolia

Massonia bifolia
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily :	Scilloideae
Genre :	Massonia
Type :	Massonia bifolia
Scientific name
	Massonia bifolia
	( Jacq. ) JCManning & Goldblatt

Massonia bifolia is a plant of the genus Massonia in the family of asparagaceae (Asparagaceae). The specific epithet bifolia is derived from the Greek words bi- for 'like' and -folius for 'leafy'.

description

Massonia bifolia is a perennial plant that grows with small bulbs up to 25 millimeters in diameter that have thin, fleshy onion scales. The two green, soft-fleshed leaves are arranged opposite one another. They are broadly ovate, spread out horizontally, fragile and striped lengthways. Your leaf blade is up to 13 inches long and up to 9 inches wide.

The flowers form dense, terminal, semi-pyramidal spikes that can reach a length of up to 10 centimeters. At the time of fruiting, the ear is elongated to 35 centimeters. The flowers have a short stem . The large, egg-shaped pointed bracts are up to 3.5 centimeters long. The cup-shaped, green flower cover is up to 15 millimeters long. The perigone lobes are egg-shaped and fused together at their base. The six stamens are up to 8 millimeters long and fused to form a small tube at their base. The basifixen, introrsen anthers are up to 4.5 millimeters long. The green, up to 5 millimeters long ovary is triangular and three-sided. The stylus reaches a length of up to 5 millimeters, the scar is head-shaped.

The fruits are winged loculicidal capsules . They contain spherical, shiny, black seeds with a diameter of up to 2 millimeters.

Systematics and distribution

Massonia bifolia is common in the south of Namibia and the South African province of North Cape in the succulent Karoo in rock crevices.

The first description as Eucomis bifolia by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin was published in 1791. John Charles Manning and Peter Goldblatt put the species in the genus Massonia in 2004 .

Nomenclatory synonyms are Basilaea bifolia (Jacq.) Mirb. (1804) and Whiteheadia bifolia (Jacq.) Baker (1873).

proof

literature

Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld : Whiteheadia bifolia . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 298 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 26.
^ Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin: Collectanea ad botanicam, chemiam et historiam naturalem spectantia . Volume 4, 1791, p. 215 ( online ).
↑ John Manning, Peter Goldblatt, Michael F. Fay: A revised generic synopsis of Hyacinthaceae in sub-Saharan Africa, including new combinations and the new tribe Pseudoprospereae. In: Edinburgh Journal of Botany . Volume 60, number 3, 2004, p. 564 ( doi: 10.1017 / S0960428603000404 ).

Web links

Massonia bifolia 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. 26.

[2] Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin: Collectanea ad botanicam, chemiam et historiam naturalem spectantia . Volume 4, 1791, p. 215 ( online ).

[3] John Manning, Peter Goldblatt, Michael F. Fay: A revised generic synopsis of Hyacinthaceae in sub-Saharan Africa, including new combinations and the new tribe Pseudoprospereae. In: Edinburgh Journal of Botany . Volume 60, number 3, 2004, p. 564 ( doi: 10.1017 / S0960428603000404 ).