Description
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Evergreen, perennial herbs, with thick creeping
rhizomes. Leaves distichous. Inflorescences of terminal rhipidia;
spathes sheathing. Flowers actinomorphic, Iris-like, white with
yellow nectar-guides on the outer tepals. Style divided into
3 broad petaloid branches apposed to the outer tepals; each
branch terminating in a pair of petaloid appendages (crests);
stigmas transverse and abaxial below base of crests. Anthers
appressed to the style branches. Fruit a capsule.
- license
- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Dietes Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=381
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
