Bulbine migiurtina Chiov.

Asphodelaceae, Christopher Whitehouse. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2002

Morphology General Habit

Perennial herb from a short rhizome, with spreading fleshy roots 2–5 mm in diameter, and several thin fibrous roots.

Morphology Leaves

Leaves linear, terete, up to 38 cm long, 4–7 mm wide, hollow, expanding at the base into a tubular sheath, the outer leaves reduced to membranous sheaths up to 6 cm long.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences

Peduncle at anthesis up to 22 cm long, ± 3 mm wide, shorter than the leaves; raceme at anthesis ± 4 cm long, ± 2 cm in diameter; bracts cuspidate, up to 10 mm long, 2–3 mm wide at the base, attenuate into a filiform apex, membranous and transparent except for a brown midrib; pedicels 2–4 mm long, overtopped by the bracts at anthesis, recurved after flowering and extending up to 22 mm in fruit.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers

Flowers congested, white; tepals 5–6 mm long, the outer ± 2 mm wide, 3–5-nerved, the inner ± 1 mm wide, 1-nerved; stamens ± 3 mm long, yellow; ovary ± 1 mm long; style ± 4 mm long.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Capsule obovoid, 8–15 mm long, 12–22 mm wide, inflated at maturity; seeds deltoid, angled, ± 2 mm wide, tuberculate.

Figures

Fig. 3 (p. 15).

Habitat

Commiphora - Acacia bushland among granite rocks on red sandy loam; 750–1050 m

Distribution

K1