Class
Order
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Ipheion uniflorum (Lindl.) Raf., Fl. Tellur. 2, 12 (1837)
Synonymy:
- ≡ Triteleia uniflora Lindl., Edwards's Bot. Reg. 15, 2 pp after Pl 1293 (1829)
- ≡ Milla uniflora (Lindl.) Graham, Edinburgh New Philos. J. 14: 174–175 (1833)
- ≡ Brodiaea uniflora (Lindl.) Engl. (1887)
- ≡ Tristagma uniflorum (Lindl.) Traub (1963)
Vernacular Name(s):
Spring star-flower
Description
Summer-green perennial. Bulb c. 2 × 1 cm, white. Leaves all basal, c. 25 cm × 5 mm, ± flat, ± glaucous. Scape erect, 15–20 cm high. Flowers 1–(2), light blue-violet or whitish, to 3 cm diam., tubular portion c. 1 cm long, lobes acute with a single dark purple vein; pedicel c. 3 cm long, invested for more than ½ its length by 2 connate purple-veined spathe-valves. Capsule globose, c. 7–8 mm long.
[From: Healy and Edgar (1980) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 3.]
Biostatus
Exotic
Phenology
Flowering: Aug.–Oct.
Bibliography
Graham, R. 1833: Description of several new or rare plants which have lately flowered in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, and chiefly in the Royal Botanic Garden. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 14: 173–176.
Hobbs, J.; Hatch, T. 1994: Bulbs for New Zealand Gardens. Godwit Press, Auckland.
Lindley, J. 1829–1830: Edwards's Botanical Register. Vol. 15. James Ridgway, London.
Rafinesque, C.S. 1837: Flora Telluriana. Vol. 2. Philadelphia.
