Flora of New Zealand Series

*A. roseum L. Sp. Pl. 1, 1753, 296ssp.bulbiferum (DC.) E. F. Warb. in Clapham, Tutin and E. F. Warb. Fl. Brit. Is 1952, 1237.

Bulb 2 × 1.5 cm, tunic scarious, outermost layer with prominent round pits, whitish-grey with stipitate offset bulbs. Leaves 2-4, c. 35 × 1 cm, flat < scape, light green to ± glaucous; sheaths reddish-purple. Scape 30-60 cm high, cylindrical, sheathed by leaves at base. Umbels 5-8 cm diam., ± lax, with flowers and bulbils; pedicels 4-6 times length of flowers, or longer; spathe-valve 1, persistent. Flowers 10-12 mm long, ± 12 mm diam., pale pink, with deeper pink central nerves; segments ± oblong, obtuse, margins slightly dentate. stamens c. ⅔ length of perianth; filaments entire, without appendages. Bulbils c. 5 mm long, becoming reddish, shinning. Capsule not seen.

N. Auckland City; Gisborne - Tahunga. S Canterbury - Christchurch. Garden escape in grassy waste land.

(Mediterranean)

First record: Healy 1958:533.

First collection: "Hagley Park, Christchurch, in grass, rough land", A. J. Healy 55/315, 18.11.1955 ().

FL. 10-11.