Volume III (1980) - Flora of New Zealand Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous & Spathaceous Monocotyledons
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Nothoscordum Kunth

NOTHOSCORDUM Kunth

Bulbous perennials; lacking onion smell; bulb tunicate. Leaves all basal, linear, flat. Scape slender. Spathe-valves 2, rarely 3. Flowers white or yellow in 2-many-flowered umbels; segments similar, connate at base, or to middle. Staminal-filaments ± dilated. Capsule loculicidal, ± 3-lobed. Seeds many, black. Spp. c. 35, of N. and S. America, 1 sp. cosmopolitan. Adventive sp. 1.

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