Ornithogalum maculatum
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Ornithogalum maculatum is a plant of the genus ornithogalum in the family of asparagaceae (Asparagaceae). The specific epithet maculatum comes from Latin and means 'spotted'.
description
Ornithogalum maculatum grows with individual, flat, underground, inverted top-shaped bulbs with a diameter of up to 4 centimeters. The white onion scales are dry gray-brown. The two to three, rarely five, upright, linear, thread-like to flat, glaucous leaves appear with the flowers. The leaf blade is 2.5 to 15 inches long and 0.5 to 2 inches wide. The leaf tip is acuminate or seldom ranking.
The upright, up to eight-flowered inflorescence reaches a length of 7 to 60 centimeters. The flower stem is round. The ovate-pointed bracts are up to 7 millimeters long. The flowers are on peduncles up to 3 centimeters long . The orange to yellow flower envelope is star-shaped. The elliptical to obovate tepals are 10 to 25 millimeters long and 5 to 6 millimeters wide. The outer tepals are spotted black towards their tip. The stamens are 7 to 8 millimeters long. Outer stamens are subulate, inner ones are flattened. The 6 millimeter long ovary is oblong spherical. The stylus is 2 millimeters long.
The ellipsoidal fruits contain tiny seeds .
Systematics and distribution
Ornithogalum maculatum is widespread in the South African provinces of the North Cape and Western Cape in the Succulent Karoo in shallow pockets in quartzitic sandstone.
The first description by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin was published in 1789
Synonyms are Eliokarmos maculatus (Jacq.) Raf. (1837), Phaeocles maculata (Jacq.) Salisb. (1866, nom. Inval.) And Eliokarmos neomaculatus Mart.-Azorín, MBCrespo & Juan (2011) and Ornithogalum rossouwii U.Müll.-Doblies & D.Müll.-Doblies (1996).
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literature
- Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld : Ornithogalum maculatum . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 293 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 144.
- ^ Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin: Collectanea ad botanicam, chemiam et historiam naturalem spectantia . Volume 2, 1789, pp. 368-369 ( online ).
- ↑ Ornithogalum maculatum . In: R. Govaerts: World Checklist of Asparagaceae . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (accessed September 3, 2016).
Web links
- Ornithogalum maculatum in the Red List of South African Plants
- photos