Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 308 (1753). '

Derivation: Greek skilla, the sea-onion.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Rootstock a bulb; leaves all basal, flat, channelled, linear or lanceolate.

Flowers usually bluish, in a raceme terminating the leafless stem or scape which is 20-100 cm high; each pedicel with a bract at the base; perianth persistent, the 6 segments free, flat, equal; stamens 6, the filaments filiform, connate at the base; anthers versatile; style filiform, undivided; ovary 3-celled, with several to many ovules in each cell.

Capsule ellipsoid, with several black angled or subglandular seeds.

Distribution:  Probably about 50 species in Europe, Africa and Asia. Several species widely cultivated in temperate Australia.

Biology: No text

Key to Species:

1. Bracts less than 5 mm long; inflorescence lax, cylindrical	S. hyacinthoides 1.
1. Bracts more than 2 cm long; inflorescence subcorymbose at first	S. peruviana 2.

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