Schizobasis cuscutoides

Schizobasis cuscutoides
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily :	Scilloideae
Genre :	Schizo base
Type :	Schizobasis cuscutoides
Scientific name
	Schizobasis cuscutoides
	( Burch. Ex Baker ) Benth. & Hook.f.

Schizobasis cuscutoides is a plant of the genus schizobasis in the family of asparagaceae (Asparagaceae). The specific epithet cuscutoides is derived from the Greek word -oides for 'similar' and the name of the genus Cuscuta .

description

Schizobasis cuscutoides grows with spherical onions with pale onion scales. The appearance and shape of young leaves is not known.

The one to three upright inflorescences reach a length of up to 15 centimeters. They are twisted at the knot . The 2 to 3 millimeter long bracts are spurred at their base. The flowers are on 0.5 to 1 centimeter long, arching flower stalks . The outspread tepals are white and up to 4 millimeters long.

Systematics and distribution

Schizobased cuscutoides is common in the south of Namibia and South Africa.

The first description as Asparagus cuscutoides by John Gilbert Baker was published in 1875. George Bentham and Joseph Dalton Hooker put the species in 1883 in the genus Schizobasis .

Synonyms are Drimia cuscutoides (Burch. Ex Baker) JCManning & Goldblatt (2000) and schizobasis schlechteri Baker (1901) and schizobasis buchubergensis Dinter (1932).

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literature

Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld : Schizobasis cuscutoides . 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. 59.
^ John Gilbert Baker: Revision of the genera and species of Asparagaceae . In: Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany . Volume 14, London 1875, p. 606 ( online ).
↑ George Bentham, Joseph Dalton Hooker: Genera Plantarum ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis Kewensibus . Volume 3, Part 2, 1883, p. 786 ( online ).
↑ Schizobasis cuscutoides . In: R. Govaerts: World Checklist of Asparagaceae . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (accessed April 18, 2013).

Web links

Drimia cuscutoides 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. 59.

[2] John Gilbert Baker: Revision of the genera and species of Asparagaceae . In: Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany . Volume 14, London 1875, p. 606 ( online ).

[3] George Bentham, Joseph Dalton Hooker: Genera Plantarum ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis Kewensibus . Volume 3, Part 2, 1883, p. 786 ( online ).

[4] Schizobasis cuscutoides . In: R. Govaerts: World Checklist of Asparagaceae . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (accessed April 18, 2013).