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Bailey, L.H. & Bailey, E.Z. (1976) Hortus Third. A concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada Macmillan Publishing Co, Inc., New York
Byng, J.W. (2014) The Flowering Plants Handbook Plant Gateway Limited, Hertford, UK
Perennial herbs, often with red rhizomes, corms or bulbs and roots. Leaves simple, alternate, linear; margins entire, sheath open. Petioles absent. Inflorescences of cymes, panicles, racemes or corymbs, rarely of solitary flowers; bracts densely hairy. Flowers small, bisexual, actinomorphic, or sometimes zygomorphic, sometimes densely hairy. Perianth with 6 tepals in 1 or 2 series, usually fused, rarely free. Stamens 1 or 2 whorled. Ovary superior, inferior or part inferior; carpels fused. Fruit a 3-valved capsule. Worldwide: 14 genera and 100 species in tropical and North America, South Africa, Australia and New Guinea Zimbabwe: 2 cultivated genera and 2 cultivated taxa. |
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