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Goldblatt, P. & Manning, J.C. (2015) Systematics and Biology of Lapeirousia, Codonorhiza, Psilosiphon and Schizorhiza in Southern Africa Strelitzia 35 South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
Perennial herbs, dying back each year, with flat-based bell-shaped corms. Foliage leaves 1-several. Inflorescence usually a much-branched panicle or a simple to branched spike or flowers clustered at ground level. Flowers actinomorphic or zygomorphic, blue, purple, red, white or pink; tepals connate into a perianth tube, equal or subequal. Fruit a capsule. Derivation of name: Named in honour of Compte de la Peyrouse, 18th century French patron of science. Comment: Many species formerly placed under Lapeirousia have now been moved to Afrosolen. Worldwide: 27 species in subsaharan Africa, especially in the Southwestern coastal regions. Caprivi: 1 taxon. |
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