Habit: Corm spheric, tan; daughter corms sessile.
Leaf: 1--3, generally narrow-lanceolate, keeled, glabrous, entire, often withered at flower.
Inflorescence: umbel-like, open; bracts +- lanceolate, +- scarious; pedicels +- erect, generally > perianth; flowers generally many.
Flower: perianth tube generally funnel-shaped, lobes generally ascending to spreading; stamens 6, attached to perianth tube at 1 level or alternately at 2 levels, equal or short alternating with long, filaments free, appendages forming crown or generally 0, anthers attached at middle, generally angled away from stigma; ovary stalked, style 1, stigma +- 3-lobed.
Fruit: generally stalked, ovoid.
Seed: +- spheric, black-crusted.
Species In Genus: 15 species: western North America, especially northern and central California.
Etymology: (Greek: 3 complete, for flower parts in 3s)
Jepson eFlora Author: J. Chris Pires & Glenn Keator
Reference: Hoover 1941 Amer Midl Naturalist 25:73--100
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)Key to Triteleia
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