[FZ]
Tecophilaeceae, E. J. Cowley & R. K. Brummit. Flora Zambesiaca 12:3. 2001
- Morphology General Habit
- Glabrous geophytic herbs, perennating from corms or tubers; corms with or without a fibrous tunic of persistent sheathing leaves or leaf remnants (tunic absent in the Flora Zambesiaca area)
- Morphology General
- Caulescent or acaulescent
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves basal or cauline, spirally arranged, sessile or ± petiolate, sheathing or not at the base, entire, linear or lanceolate to ovate; the outer leaves reduced to ± membranous non-photosynthetic sheaths without blades (cataphylls)
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescences terminal in acaulescent plants, or lateral on caulescent plants, scapose or pedunculate; flowers in panicles, racemes or spikes, or flowers solitary, usually bracteate, leaves and scape sometimes arising separately from each other on the corm apex
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers hypogynous, bisexual, trimerous, actinomorphic, pedicellate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Perianth
- Perianth segments (tepals) 6, fused into a short tube at the base, or ± free to the base, segments reflexed or not
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium
- Stamens 6, inserted at the throat of the perianth tube, equal (or in the New World sometimes heteromorphic or some reduced to staminodes); filaments glabrous, short; anthers basifixed, 2-locular, sometimes tailed, connivent at apex or not, dehiscing by an apical pore or clavate slit, or splitting longitudinally
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium
- Style erect, filiform, straight or curved; stigma small, capitate or minutely 3-fid Ovary inferior, semi-superior or superior, 3-locular; placentation axile, ovules 2-many per carpel
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Capsule 3-lobed, loculicidal; seeds small numerous smooth or warty, or few and large and sometimes with a conspicuous chalazosperm
[FTEA]
Tecophilaeaceae, Susan Carter. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1966
- Morphology General Habit
- Perennial herbs with corms or tubers
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves petiolate, sessile or amplexicaul, linear to ovate-orbicular, decurrent to cordate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Bracts sometimes minute or absent Inflorescence racemose, pseudo-racemose or paniculate, or the flowers solitary
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers pedicellate, hermaphrodite, regular or slightly irregular
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Perianth
- Perianth-segments 6, free or forming a short tube, entire, spreading or reflexed
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium
- Stamens 6, inserted on the perianth-segments at the throat of the tube, all perfect or 2 or 3 replaced by linear staminodes; anthers dithecous, sometimes connivent, with the base sometimes produced into a spur or sac; dehiscence by an apical pore, usually slightly introrse
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium
- Ovary semi-inferior, rarely almost superior, trilocular; ovules 2–? in each cell; placentation axile; style filiform; stigma minutely trifid
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Capsule trilobed, dehiscence loculicidal; seeds small and numerous, or a few large ones, rarely only one developing, smooth or warted, rarely with spongy cap; endosperm present
[FWTA]
Tecophilaeaceae, F.N. Hepper. Flora of West Tropical Africa 3:1. 1968
- Morphology General Habit
- Herbs with fibrous tunicated corms or thick orbicular flattened tubers
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves radical or towards the base of the flowering stems, linear to ovate-orbicular and cordate, glabrous
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, in simple racemes separately from the tuber or corm, or in panicles; bracts large and membranous to small
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Perianth
- Perianth-tube short or absent; lobes 6, spreading or reflexed, subequal, imbricate Stamens 6, perfect, or 3 and with 3 staminodes, inserted at the throat of the perianth; anthers 2-locular, the connective often produced at both ends, the base then swollen or spur-like, cells opening by a terminal pore, rarely by a slit
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium
- Ovules numerous, axile, 2-seriate in each loculus Ovary semi-inferior, 3-locular; style subulate or filiform
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit a loculicidal capsule
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds numerous, with fleshy endosperm
Tecophilaeaceae Leyb. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Bonplandia 10: 370. 1862 (1862)
Accepted by
- APG IV (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/boj.12385
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Flora Zambesiaca
Flora Zambesiaca
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Flora of West Tropical Africa
Flora of West Tropical Africa
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
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