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Electronic Flora of South Australia genus Fact Sheet

Family: Iridaceae
Ferraria

Citation: Burman ex Miller, Figs. Pl. 187 (1759).

Derivation: After J. B. Ferrari, 1584-1655, Italian botanist, who first illustrated the genus in 1633.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Deciduous perennial herbs dormant in summer; corm persistent, tuber-like, with a membranous tunic; leaves basal and cauline, linear to oblong, loosely equitant; stem erect, terete, leafy, branched.

Inflorescence cymose; flowers 2 or 3 in each spathe on short pedicels, very fugacious, malodorous, actinomorphic; perianth-segments free, subequal, forming a cup around the stamens and style, spreading above, with crisped wavy margins; filaments connate in a short tube; anthers small, versatile, appressed to the style branches; style branches 3, flattened, short, deeply 2-fid and fringed.

Capsule ellipsoid, papery; seeds numerous, angular. (M.P. de Vos (1979) Jl S. Afr. Bot. 45:295-375.)

Distribution:  10 species in southern Africa.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available


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