Muscari Mill.

Details

Name scientific

Muscari Mill., Gard. Dict., ed. 4, 3, (1754)

Preferred name

Muscari Mill.

Taxonomy reference

Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.

Linked name

Muscari

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Exotic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. (1980)

Nomenclature

Original authors

Mill.

Authors

Mill.

Publication place

Miller, P. 1754: The Gardeners Dictionary. Vol. 3. Edition 4. London.

Year published

1754

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Muscari Mill.

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Muscari

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Asparagaceae

Genus

Muscari

Subordinates

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Grape hyacinth

Synonyms

Descriptions

Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. 1980: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. III. Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous and Spathaceous Monocotyledons. Government Printer, Wellington.

Muscari Mill.

Description

Bulbous perennials. Leaves all basal, linear, flat or grooved, ± fleshy. Flowers small, flask-shaped, oblong to globose, constricted at mouth, ± crowded in stiff, erect racemes, apical flowers often smaller and sterile; lobes very short, tooth-like, often reflexed; pedicels short; bracts minute or 0. Capsule loculicidal, triquetrous. Seeds ± globose, few, glossy, black, often wrinkled. Spp. c. 60, of Europe, W. Asia and N. Africa. Adventive sp. 1.