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Volume III (1980) - Flora of New Zealand Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous & Spathaceous Monocotyledons
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Schizostylis Backh. & Harv.

SCHIZOSTYLIS Backh. et Harvey

Rhizomatous perennial. Stems usually not swollen but occasionally with bulb-like swelling at base. Leaves few, distichous. Spike lax. Flowers solitary within 2 long-lanceolate green spathe-valves; tube long, straight, narrow-cylindrical; lobes free, spreading, equal. Stamens symmetrical. Style filiform, deeply 3-fid. Capsule obovoid-oblong, membranous. Seeds many. S. African endemic genus of 2 spp. Adventive sp. 1.

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