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Chasmanthe
Family:
Iridaceae
Zachery Berry
FNA
Resources
Peter Goldblatt in Flora of North America (vol. 26)
Herbs, perennial, from corms. Stems simple or branched. Leaves several; blade plane, ensiform. Inflorescences spicate, axes usually lightly flexed, many-flowered; bracts green or purplish, ± equal, coriaceous. Flowers unscented, zygomorphic; tepals connate into tube, orange to scarlet (rarely yellow), unequal, dorsal tepal horizontal, more than 2 times others, other tepals spreading to reflexed; perianth tube slender, cylindric proximally, abruptly expanded, longer, wider, horizontal distally; stamens unilateral, extended horizontally below dorsal tepal; anthers parallel; style arching over filaments, branching opposite to or beyond anthers; branches 3, filiform, shallowly notched apically. Capsules irregularly globose, cartilaginous. Seeds 2-4 per locule, globose; seed coat bright orange, sometimes somewhat fleshy. x = 10.
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Chasmanthe aethiopica
Chasmanthe bicolor
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Chasmanthe floribunda
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