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Asphodelus L.

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Asphodelus L., Sp. Pl. 309-310 (1753)
Asphodelus L.
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.
Names_Fungi record source Asphodelus L. 1753

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Exotic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. (1980)

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L.
L.
Linnaeus, C. 1753: Species Plantarum. Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm.
1753
309-310
ICN
Asphodelus L.
genus
Asphodelus

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asparagales
Asphodelaceae
Asphodelus

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

Asphodelus L.

Perennial or annual herbs; rhizome short, or roots fibrous or tuberous. Leaves all basal, linear, 3-angled or tubular. Scape simple, or branched and bracteate; inflorescence a raceme or panicle. Flowers white or pink, pedicellate, bracteate; segments ± equal, free or ± connate at base, spreading above, 1-nerved. Capsule subglobose, leathery, loculicidal. Seeds triquetrous. Spp. c. 12, from the Mediterranean across S. Asia to India. Adventive sp. 1.

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Asphodelus L.
Asphodelus L.
Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. (1980)
Asphodelus L.
Asphodelus L.
Mabberley, D.J. (2008)
Asphodelus L.
Asphodelaceae Juss.

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Exotic
Cultivated
New Zealand
Political Region
Bryant, G. (1996)
Asphodelus acaulis recorded on p. 18.

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1 January 2000
29 July 2011
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