Velloziaceae |
Xerophyta retinervis Bak.
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- Common Name: Black Stick Lily
- Family: Velloziaceae Endl.
- Country of Origin: South Africa
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- 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: 1315 - S Bench - Fynbos
- Qty: 1 confirmed on 04-30-2008
Classification:- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Liliopsida
- SubClass: monocots
- Order: Pandanales
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- Family: Velloziaceae
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References:RHS Dictionary of Gardening, 1984
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