Description
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Perennial herbs, dying back each year, with corms.
Foliage leaves mostly basal, plane or plicate. Flowers
actinomorphic (aurea) or zygomorphic (paniculata) with stamens
arched under the upper tepal; in shades of orange to
red; tepals united into a perianth tube. Stamens and style
well exserted from the tepals. Fruit a capsule. Seeds spherical,
hard, shiny.
- 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). Crocosmia Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=387
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
