Volume III (1980) - Flora of New Zealand Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous & Spathaceous Monocotyledons
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Ipheion uniflorum (Lindl.) Raf.

*I. uniflorum (Lindl.) Raf. Fl. Tellur. 2, 1837, 12.

Spring Star-flower

Summer-green perennial. Bulb c. 2 × 1 cm, white. Leaves all basal, c. 25 cm × 5 mm, ± flat, ± glaucous. Scape erect, 15-20 cm high. Flowers 1-(2), light blue-violet or whitish, to 3 cm diam., tubular portion c. 1 cm long, lobes acute with a single dark purple vein; pedicel c. 3 cm long, invested for more than ½ its length by 2 connate purple-veined spathe-valves. Capsule globose, c. 7-8 mm long.

S. Nelson City; Marlborough - Omaka (Blenheim); Canterbury - Timaru. Garden outcast in grassy places.

(S. America)

First record: ‡

First collection: "Railway yards, Timaru, wild in grass, R. Mason, 22.7.1944, only one plant seen" ().

FL. 8-10.

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