Ornithogalum multifolium

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Ornithogalum multifolium
Systematics
Monocots
Order : Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family : Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily : Scilloideae
Genre : Milky Stars ( Ornithogalum )
Type : Ornithogalum multifolium
Scientific name
Ornithogalum multifolium
Baker

Ornithogalum multifolium is a plant of the genus ornithogalum in the family of asparagaceae (Asparagaceae). The specific epithet multifolium is derived from the Latin words multi for 'many' and folius for '-blättrig'.

description

Ornithogalum multifolium grows with single or group-forming, subterranean, egg-shaped bulbs with a diameter of up to 4 centimeters. The green tissue is visible under the gray-brown, leathery onion scales. The up to ten, often spread out, linear-stemmed, glaucous leaves appear with the flowers. The leaf blade is 2 to 10 inches long and 2 to 3 millimeters wide.

The upright, up to 15-flowered inflorescence reaches a length of 4 to 15 centimeters. The flower stem is round. The boat-shaped, pointed bracts are 4 to 25 millimeters long. The flowers are on peduncles up to 2 centimeters long . The yellow to orange-colored flower envelope is star-shaped. The ovate-lanceolate to obovate tepals are 6 to 15 millimeters long and 4 millimeters wide. The linear-egg-shaped stamens are 3 to 7 millimeters long. The outer stamens are narrower. The 3 to 6 millimeters long ovary is broadly ovate. The upright stylus is 1 to 2 millimeters long.

The egg-shaped fruits have a length of up to 1 centimeter.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 20.

Systematics and distribution

Ornithogalum multifolium is widespread in the South African provinces of North Cape and Western Cape in the Succulent Karoo in shallow pockets in quartzitic sandstone.

The first description by John Gilbert Baker was published in 1873

Synonyms are Ornithogalum aurantiacum Baker (1878), Ornithogalum ranunculoides L. Bolus (1933) and Ornithogalum perpulchrum Poelln. (1944).

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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. 159.
  2. ^ Tropicos. [1]
  3. ^ John Gilbert Baker: Revision of the Genera and Species of Scilleae and Chlorogaleae . In: Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany . Volume 13, London 1873, p. 271 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Ornithogalum multifolium . In: R. Govaerts: World Checklist of Asparagaceae . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (accessed April 21, 2013).

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