Schizobasis intricata

Schizobasis intricata
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily :	Scilloideae
Genre :	Schizo base
Type :	Schizobasis intricata
Scientific name
	Schizobasis intricata
	( Baker ) Baker

Schizobasis intricata is a plant of the genus schizobasis in the family of asparagaceae (Asparagaceae). The specific epithet intricata comes from Latin , means 'tangled' and refers to the inflorescence.

description

Schizobasis intricata grows with spherical bulbs with white or pink onion scales. Young leaves are thread-like.

The one to three upright inflorescences reach a length of up to 50 centimeters. They are bent in a zigzag fashion at the knot . The 2 to 3 millimeter long bracts are spurred. The flowers are on 0.7 to 5 centimeters long, arching, rising flower stalks . The spread out tepals are white to pale yellow and up to 4 millimeters long. The stamens are fused with the base of the tepals. They are slightly shorter than the tepals.

Systematics and distribution

Schizobasis intricata is widespread in Ethiopia , Zimbabwe , Zambia , Mozambique , Angola , Tanzania , Namibia and South Africa in water-permeable rock crevices up to altitudes of 1500 meters.

The first description as Anthericum intricatum by John Gilbert Baker was published in 1872. Two years later he placed the species in the genus Schizobasis .

Synonyms are Drimia intricata (Baker) JCManning & Goldblatt (2000) and Schizobasis macowanii Baker (1873) and Schizobasis dinteri K. Krause (1912).

proof

literature

Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld : Schizobasis intricata . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 296-297 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 214.
^ John Gilbert Baker: Revision of the nomenclature and arrangement of the Cape species of Anthericum . In: Journal of Botany, British and Foreign . Volume 10, London 1872, p. 140 ( online ).
^ John Gilbert Baker, Description of new species of Scilleae and other Liliaceae In: Journal of Botany, British and Foreign . Volume 12, London 1874, p. 368 ( online ).
↑ Schizobasis intricata . In: R. Govaerts: World Checklist of Asparagaceae . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (accessed April 18, 2013).

Web links

Drimia intricata in the Red List of South African Plants
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[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 214.

[2] John Gilbert Baker: Revision of the nomenclature and arrangement of the Cape species of Anthericum . In: Journal of Botany, British and Foreign . Volume 10, London 1872, p. 140 ( online ).

[3] John Gilbert Baker, Description of new species of Scilleae and other Liliaceae In: Journal of Botany, British and Foreign . Volume 12, London 1874, p. 368 ( online ).

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