- Family:
- Asphodelaceae Juss.
Trachyandra Kunth

[FZ]
Asphodelaceae, S. Kativu. Flora Zambesiaca 12:3. 2001
- Morphology General Habit
- Geophytic herbs (sometimes suffrutescent), solitary or ± tufted, from short vertical rhizomes, acaulescent or sometimes caulescent, glabrous or glandular-pubescent.
- Morphology Roots
- Roots numerous, fibrous, swollen and tapering or fusiform (sometimes narrowly tuberous).
- Morphology Stem
- Stem when present ± woody, naked or covered with old leaf bases.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves rosulate, rarely ± distichous, sheathing at the base and often persisting as a sheath of fibres, or cauline and alternate; lamina linear, flat, three-angular in section or ± terete, entire, glabrous hispidulous or glandular-pubescent, outer leaves sometimes reduced to chartaceousoverlapping brown sheaths (squamae).
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescences with flowers racemosely or paniculately arranged on a peduncle or scape; peduncle terete, naked or rarely with a few sterile bracts in the upper part; pedicels each subtended by a floral bract, not articulated, ascending, patent or ± recurved, sometimes curving through 360°, their direction usually changing with the developmental stage of the flower and fruit.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers erect to pendulous; perianth segments free, spreading or reflexed, usually white, occasionally dull yellowish (rarely pink or mauve), with a single dark central vein, the 3 outer segments slightly narrower than the 3 inner ones, caducous, the perianth base persisting below the ovary to form a small sometimes stipitate rim or cup.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens 6, slightly shorter than the perianth segments; filaments attached to the perianth base, scabrid or retrorsely papillate; anthers versatile, introrse.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Ovary sessile, 3-locular, globose with 2–16 ovules biseriate in each locule; style filiform, ultimately exserted, often declinate; stigma minutely penicillate.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Capsule loculicidally 3-valved, globose or ± 3-lobed; testa coriaceous, smooth or tuberculate with few to many gland-tipped tubercles.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds angled, brownish or greyish, smooth or verrucose, with or without prominent ridges, with immersed yellow glands (maculate), becoming glutinous when mature.
[FTEA]
Asphodelaceae, Christopher Whitehouse. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2002
- Morphology General Habit
- Suffrutescent or herbaceous perennials, rhizomatous, sometimes developing an upright stem covered with old leaf-bases; roots fibrous or spindle-shaped, sometimes forming a small tuber
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves in a rosette or rarely distichous, or cauline and alternate, terete, triquetrous, canaliculate or flat, with a tubular basal sheath, outer leaves often reduced, membranous and sheathing
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescence an axillary raceme or panicle; pedicels not articulated, one in each bract; flowers white or rarely yellow, pink or mauve, with dark keels on the tepals and often 2-spotted at the base
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Perianth
- Perianth of 6 free tepals, spreading or reflexed, the 3 outer slightly narrower than the inner
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens 6, slightly shorter than the tepals, sometimes declinate; filaments retrorsely scabrid
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Ovary sessile, globose, with 2–16 ovules per locule; style filiform, often declinate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Capsule globose to ellipsoid, sometimes tuberculate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds angled, brown or grey, smooth or verrucose, with scattered glands.
[FSOM]
M. Thulin. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1–4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Distribution
- Some 50 species in Africa, the majority in South Africa.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves linear
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescence a many-flowered raceme or panicle; bracts scarious; pedicels not articulated, often thickened in fruit
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Tepal
- Tepals subequal, usually white, free or united only at the base, spreading or recurved, 1-nerved, soon falling and leaving a small rim or cup below the ovary
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens usually ± equal, slightly shorter than tepals; filaments scabrid with short retrorse hairs
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Capsule few- to many-seeded
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds angled.
Native to:
Angola, Botswana, Cape Provinces, Caprivi Strip, Ethiopia, Free State, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Somalia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Introduced into:
New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia
- Trachyandra acocksii Oberm.
- Trachyandra adamsonii (Compton) Oberm.
- Trachyandra affinis Kunth
- Trachyandra arenicola J.C.Manning & Goldblatt
- Trachyandra aridimontana J.C.Manning
- Trachyandra arvensis (Schinz) Oberm.
- Trachyandra asperata Kunth
- Trachyandra brachypoda (Baker) Oberm.
- Trachyandra bulbinifolia (Dinter) Oberm.
- Trachyandra bulbosa Boatwr. & J.C.Manning
- Trachyandra burkei (Baker) Oberm.
- Trachyandra capillata (Poelln.) Oberm.
- Trachyandra chlamydophylla (Baker) Oberm.
- Trachyandra ciliata (L.f.) Kunth
- Trachyandra dissecta Oberm.
- Trachyandra divaricata (Jacq.) Kunth
- Trachyandra ensifolia (Sölch) Roessler
- Trachyandra eriocarpa Boatwr. & J.C.Manning
- Trachyandra erythrorrhiza (Conrath) Oberm.
- Trachyandra esterhuysenae Oberm.
- Trachyandra falcata (L.f.) Kunth
- Trachyandra filiformis (Aiton) Oberm.
- Trachyandra flexifolia (L.f.) Kunth
- Trachyandra gerrardii (Baker) Oberm.
- Trachyandra giffenii (F.M.Leight.) Oberm.
- Trachyandra glandulosa (Dinter) Oberm.
- Trachyandra gracilenta Oberm.
- Trachyandra hantamensis Boatwr. & J.C.Manning
- Trachyandra hirsuta (Thunb.) Kunth
- Trachyandra hirsutiflora (Adamson) Oberm.
- Trachyandra hispida (L.) Kunth
- Trachyandra involucrata (Baker) Oberm.
- Trachyandra jacquiniana (Schult. & Schult.f.) Oberm.
- Trachyandra kamiesbergensis Boatwr. & J.C.Manning
- Trachyandra karrooica Oberm.
- Trachyandra lanata (Dinter) Oberm.
- Trachyandra laxa (N.E.Br.) Oberm.
- Trachyandra malosana (Baker) Oberm.
- Trachyandra mandrarensis (H.Perrier) Marais & Reilly
- Trachyandra margaretae Oberm.
- Trachyandra mira C.W.Lin & C.H.Lee
- Trachyandra montana J.C.Manning & Goldblatt
- Trachyandra muricata (L.f.) Kunth
- Trachyandra oligotricha (Baker) Oberm.
- Trachyandra paniculata Oberm.
- Trachyandra patens Oberm.
- Trachyandra peculiaris (Dinter) Oberm.
- Trachyandra prolifera P.L.Perry
- Trachyandra pyrenicarpa (Welw. ex Baker) Oberm.
- Trachyandra revoluta (L.) Kunth
- Trachyandra sabulosa (Adamson) Oberm.
- Trachyandra saltii (Baker) Oberm.
- Trachyandra sanguinorhiza Boatwr. & J.C.Manning
- Trachyandra scabra (L.f.) Kunth
- Trachyandra smalliana Hilliard & B.L.Burtt
- Trachyandra tabularis (Baker) Oberm.
- Trachyandra thyrsoidea (Baker) Oberm.
- Trachyandra tortilis (Baker) Oberm.
- Trachyandra triquetra Thulin
- Trachyandra zebrina (Schltr. ex Poelln.) Oberm.
Trachyandra Kunth appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Enum. Pl. 4: 573 (1843)
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
- Enum. Pl. 4: 573 (1843), nom. conserv.
- Obermeyer in Bothalia 7: 711–759 (1962).
- Sölch et al. in Merxmüller, Prodr. Fl. SW. Afrika, fam. 147: 68 (1970).
Flora of Somalia
- Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Enum. Pl. 4: 573 (1843)
- Oberm. in Bothalia 7: 711–759 (1962)
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Flora Zambesiaca
Flora Zambesiaca
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Flora of Somalia
Flora of Somalia
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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