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Staples, G.W. & Herbst, D.R. (2005) A Tropical Garden Flora; plants cultivated in the Hawaiian islands and other tropical places. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Perennial herbs with rhizomes; roots fibrous or enlarged. Leaves tufted, grass-like, linear, leathery. Inflorescence a raceme or spike. Flowers radially symmetric, pointing downwards; corolla bell-shaped, pale purple to white. Fruit berry-like rupturing early. Seeds usually blue, fleshy. Worldwide: C. 20 species from India to Japan and south-east to the Philippines. Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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