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Velloziaceae

Subfamily Vellozioideae

W/C = Wild Collected
Xerophyta retinervis Bak.

  • Common Name: Black Stick Lily
  • Family: Velloziaceae Endl.

  • Country of Origin: South Africa
  • Habitat:

  • Description: [syn. Vellozia retinervis]

    Trunk to 12 feet high with a terminal tuft of leaves. Leaves long-linear, recurved, rigid, galbrous. Flowers blue, 1.5 inches across; segments 1.25 to 1.5 inches long, 1/4 to 1/2 inch wide, glabrous without; anthers 1/2 inch long, nearly sessile, peduncles dark above, somewhat bristly beneath ovary; ovary oblong, densely covered with ascending brown bristles.

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Accession Data:

  • Accession # 199700041
  • Source: Ernest DeMarie - NYBG
  • Accession Date: 07-29-1997
  • Bench: 2114 - MED:Fynbos F
  • Qty: 1 confirmed on 11-03-2011
Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Liliopsida
  • SubClass: monocots
  • Order: Pandanales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Velloziaceae
  • SubFamily: Vellozioideae
  • Tribe:
  • SubTribe:
References:

  1. RHS Dictionary of Gardening, 1984

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