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

*C. bicolor (Gasp.) N. E. Brown Trans. Proc. Roy. Soc. S. Africa 20, 1932, 273.

Fig. 24E-G

Corm ± 4 cm wide; tunic papery, light brown, Stems 70-100 cm high. Leaves ± ½ length of stem, to 3 cm wide, midvein slightly prominent. Spike to 25 cm long, many-flowered, occasionally branched at base; spathe-valves brown, membranous. Flowers ± 6 cm long, ± 1 cm diam., upper side scarlet, lower side yellow and green; tube 0.5 cm × 1 mm in lower narrow portion, 2 cm × 5 mm above; upper lobe 3 cm long, obtuse, scarlet, other lobes all acute, c. 5 mm long, with red lobe either side of long lobe, 3 remaining lobes green, narrower. Anthers black, projecting beyond long perianth-lobe. Seeds globose to slightly angled, orange-red, dull.

N. Auckland City. Grassy waste land.

(S. Africa)

First record: ‡

First collection: Auckland University grounds, waste land, A. E. Esler and S. J. Astridge 3370, 25.8.1971 (CHR 226210).

FL. 9.

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