Volume III (1980) - Flora of New Zealand Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous & Spathaceous Monocotyledons
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Hypoxis L.

HYPOXIS L.

Leaves grass-like, linear-lanceolate to ± filiform, usually hairy. Flowers solitary from among leaves or in racemose or subumbellate inflorescences. Perianth-segments free, spreading. Stamens 6, < segments; anthers ± lobed at base. Ovary not beaked; style short with erect stigmas. Fruit a capsule. Seeds many, small, subglobose, dark-coloured. Spp. c. 100, Africa, America, E. Asia, Indomalesia and Australia. Adventive sp. 1.

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