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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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New Zealand
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(L.) Ker Gawl.
L.
Ker Gawl.
1804
226
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species
Sparaxis bulbifera

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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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Sparaxis bulbifera (L.) Ker Gawl.
Sparaxis bulbifera (L.) Ker Gawl.

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Sparaxis bulbifera (L.) Ker Gawl.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Sparaxis bulbifera (L.) Ker Gawl.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Sparaxis bulbifera (L.) Ker Gawl.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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1 January 2000
28 April 2022
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