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Volume III (1980) - Flora of New Zealand Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous & Spathaceous Monocotyledons
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Tritonia Ker Gawl.

TRITONIA Ker-Gawl.

Summer-green perennial. Corm globose; tunic fibrous. Stem firm. Leaves distichous, narrow-ensiform. Inflorescence simple or branched, few- to many-flowered. Flowers white, cream, rose, orange or scarlet, each within 2 membranous spathe-valves; tube short, straight, cylindrical below, funnel-shaped above; lobes ± equal. Stamens asymmetric. Style-branches entire. Capsule oblong. Seeds many. Spp. c. 55 of tropical and S. Africa. Adventive spp. 2.

Key

1
Flowers bright orange, pink or reddish, veins not outstandingly different in colour
1. *crocata
Flowers yellow-cream, with distinctly contrasting, very fine purple veins
2. *lineata
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