- Family:
- Tecophilaeaceae Leyb.
Kabuyea Brummitt
[FZ]
Tecophilaeaceae, E. J. Cowley & R. K. Brummit. Flora Zambesiaca 12:3. 2001
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
- Ovary 3-locular, semi-inferior; ovules 2 per carpel, only one developing into a seed.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Capsule with only one or occasionally 2 carpels developing a seed; fertile carpels globose, dehiscing by a complete longitudinal split.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds globose; testa clathrate, the lattice thick and deeply pitted, sometimes the pits completely piercing the testa, the inner walls of the pits covered in microprickles; endosperm present but chalazosperm lacking.
- Morphology General Habit
- Perennial herbs, acaulescent.
- Vegetative Multiplication Corms
- Corms several superposed one above the other.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves c. 4, basal, closely enfolding the base of the scape and sheathed by 1 or more outer cataphylls; inner cataphylls present on the scape or absent, not sheathing; leaf laminas ± long-attenuate at the base into an indistinctly defined petiole; petiole shorter than or sometimes nearly equalling the lamina, or petiole absent in young leaves.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescence scapose with flowers racemosely arranged; scape occasionally with a solitary sterile bract below the lowermost flower; raceme with scarious linear-triangular bracts deciduous at the fruiting stage.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Tepal
- Tepals white, ± free to the base.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens Anthers
- Anther thecae oblong, opening introrsely by an oblique clavate pore at the apex.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Pollen
- Pollen grains with a perforate tectum.
Native to:
Mozambique, Tanzania
Kabuyea Brummitt appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Kew Bull. 53: 771 (1998)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R.H.A. (2011). World checklist of selected plant families published update Facilitated by the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Literature
Flora Zambesiaca
- in Kew Bull. 53: 771 (1998).
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Flora Zambesiaca
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