Diagnostic ²

"Suberect herbs; roots tuberous; stem 40-65 cm high, terete, glabrous. Leaves basal and cauline, 10-20 x 1-1.5 cm, linear-lanceolate, acute; cauline leaves smaller; sheath open, 2 cm long, ciliate. Cymes 8 cm long, terminal, panicled; peduncle 8 cm long. Flowers 5-20 in a cymes; pedicel 5-6 mm long; sepals 6 x 3 mm, elliptic, acute at apex; petals 8 x 5 mm, obovate, obtuse, narrow; staminodes 3, yellow, 3-lobed. Capsule 6.5 x 3 mm, ellipsoid, acute, beaked; seeds 3 x 2 mm, ellipsoid, rugose, brown."

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/services/media.php?env=botany&irn=2009547
2. (c) India Biodiversity Portal, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/26335694

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• African Plants - a photo guide
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

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