|
|
|
Hypoxis Linn., Syst. ed.10. 486. 1758. Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 6:277.1892; Cooke, Fl. Bomb. 3:254.1906.
E. NASIR
National Herbarium, Pakistan Agricultural Research Council, Islamabad.
Roots tuberous; scaly or covered with fibres. Leaves radical, linear, distinctly nerved. Flowers in clusters, racemes or solitary, trimerous, hermaphrodite. Ovary inferior, trilocular, placentae axile; style short, columnar; stigmas 3. Fruit capsular.
A genus of c. 100 species distributed in the tropics, mostly in S. Africa. Represented in Pakistan by 1 species.
Lower Taxon
Related Synonym(s):
| Related Links (opens in a new window) |
|
Treatments in Other Floras @ www.efloras.org
Other Databases
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
