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Volume III (1980) - Flora of New Zealand Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous & Spathaceous Monocotyledons
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Chasmanthe N.E.Br.

CHASMANTHE N. E. Brown

Summer-green perennial. Corm slightly flattened; tunic of thinly netted fibres. Leaves basal and cauline, distichous, closely imbricate, narrow-ensiform. Spike distichous, simple or occasionally branched. Flowers strongly zygomorphic, each within 2 membranous brownish spathe-valves usually < slenderest portion of perianth-tube; tube straight and very slender below, less than ⅓ of curved, broader-cylindrical upper part; lobes < tube, unequal, upper lobe ± hooded, much > other five lobes. Stamens ± = longest lobe and arched under it. Style-branches undivided. Capsule subglobose, < spathe-valves, many-seeded. Spp. 7, of tropical and S. Africa. Adventive spp. 2.

Key

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Flowers entirely orange-red, or occasionally orange-yellow
2. *floribunda
Flowers scarlet on upper side, yellow and green below
1. *bicolor
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