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Key to families | Table of families and genera This text currently parallels The Jepson Manual: Vascular Plants of California, Second Edition that is now available at the University of California Press. Text appearing in blue on this page will not appear in the printed book; it will be displayed only on the Web. Specimen numbers are hyperlinked to records in the Consortium of California Herbaria data view where possible. Taxa are hyperlinked to entries in the Jepson Interchange via the "[Online Interchange]" link. |
Corm depressed, cover fibrous.
Inflorescence: spike, branched below or not; flowers generally ± 2-ranked, flower bracts green, leathery.
Flower: radial or generally bilateral; perianth funnel- or trumpet-shaped, tube curved, lobes ± equal or unequal, oblong or lanceolate; style branches divided ± to middle, thread-like.
Fruit: generally oblong.
Seed: generally winged at 1 or both ends.
± 50 species: s Africa. (Sir William Watson, English botanist-physician, 1715–1787) [Goldblatt 1989 Ann Kirstenbosch Bot Gard 17:1–148] Many species cultivated as ornamental.
1. Perianth rose-pink to white, tube < 2 cm, ± curved; flower radial; inflorescence, leaf axils without bulblets ..... [W. marginata]
1' Perianth brick-red, tube 4–5 cm, sharp-curved; flower bilateral; inflorescence, occasionally leaf axils with bulblets after flower or not ..... W. meriana
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