Volume III (1980) - Flora of New Zealand Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous & Spathaceous Monocotyledons
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Homeria Vent.

HOMERIA Vent.

Corm globose; tunic of coarse woody fibres. Basal leaves 1-3, bifacial. Inflorescence simple to corymbose. Flowers funnel-shaped, fugacious, pedicelled, 2-4 opening successively within terminal paired spathe-valves; tube short or 0; lobes subequal, spreading. Stamens with filaments united in a tube round style. Style-branches short, broadly cuneate, truncate, or shortly bifid occasionally with 2 very small incurved crests. Spp. 37, all of S.Africa. Adventive sp. 1.

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