Hesperantha
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Hesperantha (Greek, evening flower). Iridaceae. Bulbs, sometimes grown indoors. These plants belong to the Ixia tribe and are much inferior to ixias for general cult., but have fragrant fls., opening at evening; the style is short wit h long subulate branches, and the spathe-valves are green rather than brown. The genus is still more closely allied to Geissorhiza, and differs in having shorter style and longer style-branches and spathe-valves always green instead of sometimes brownish above. The conns are Yiva. thick or less: lvs. 2-5, narrow and distichous: fls. 2-10 in a lax, distichous spike; perianth rotate and a cylindrical tube; inner segms. white; outer ones red outside; stamens inserted on the throat.—Species about 40, in Trop. Afr. and the Cape, mostly the latter. For cult, see Ixia and Bulbs.
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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syn. Schizostylis (Greek, to cut, and style, alluding to the filiform segments of the style). Iridaceae. Greenhouse or half-hardy plants: sts. fascicled on the rhizome, bulbless or slightly bulbous-thickened at the base: lvs. linear or narrow-ensiform: spathes remote along the simple peduncle, somewhat distichous, greenish, lanceolate, complicate: fl. sessile in the spathe; bracts narrower than the spathe, green or somewhat scarious, 2-keeled; perianth showy, red, the tube slender, the lobes equal, oblong or ovate; ovary 3-celled: caps, obovoid or oblong, the top truncate, 3-grooved, membranaceous.—Two species, S. Afr. CH
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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