Sisyrinchium
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Description
Caespitose to rhizomatous herbs.
Inflorescences axillary or terminal in panicles of fan-shaped and few-flowered cymes or of many-flowered clusters, each with 1-2 spathes.
Flowers actinomorphic, pedicelled, bluish or yellowish.
Stamens 3, united into a tube at the base, rarely nearly free.
Ovary:
Capsules exserted.
Seeds small, globose.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present, Australasia, Central and South America present, East Malesia present, New Zealand present
About 100 spp. in Central and South America, 1 native sp. in New Zealand, Australia and East Malesia (New Guinea); also one species introduced.