Sparaxis bulbifera (L.) Ker Gawl.
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Sparaxis bulbifera (L.) Ker Gawl. in Ker Gawler, Ann. Bot. [König & Sims] 1: 226 (1804)
Sparaxis bulbifera (L.) Ker Gawl.
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(L.) Ker Gawl.
L.
Ker Gawl.
1804
226
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Sparaxis bulbifera
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Sparaxis bulbifera (L.) Ker Gawl.
Tufted, grass-like, (10) -20-50- (65) cm high. Corm 0.6-1 × 1-1.5 cm, white; tunic soft, closely woven, grey-brown, fibrous. Leaves (4) -6-9, variable in length, rarely reaching level of lowest flowers, 0.5-1 cm wide, in basal fan, few cauline, bract-like above, sheathing the branches; cormils several in most leaf-axils. Inflorescence 1-8- (15)-flowered, usually branched; spathe-valves 1.5-2 cm long, white with minute brown streaks, ± cuspidate, often shallowly to deeply lacerate, usually red-brown towards tip. Flowers to 4.5 cm long, 4-5 cm diam., almost entirely yellow-cream; tube c. 1.5 cm long, yellow; lobes cream on inside, the outside entirely cream or often broadly streaked with purple, occasionally some lobes or even whole flowers entirely purple. Stamens asymmetric. Capsule light green, 1 cm × 7 mm. Seeds ± globose, 2-2.5 mm diam., reddish-brown.
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Historic biostatus
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1 January 2000
28 April 2022