Sisyrinchium pulchellum
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Description
Glabrous herb, 10-35 cm high.
Leaves cauline, distichous, linear, 4-22 cm by 1-10 mm.
Inflorescences in 1-2-flowered, contracted cymes, a few at a cauline leaf, each cyme with 1 spathe:
Flowers c. 5 mm long.
Stamens nearly free, filaments c. 4 mm, anthers 1 mm long.
Ovary ellipsoid, c. 1 mm long;
Capsules globular, 2-5 mm ø;
Seeds black, 1 mm ø.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present, Australasia: New South Wales (New South Wales present); Tasmania (Tasmania present); Victoria (Victoria present), East Malesia present, Lake Habbema area present, Mt Antares present, New Zealand present
New Zealand, Australia (New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania), and East Malesia: New Guinea (Lake Habbema area and Mt Antares in West, many localities in East). .
Notes
MOORE (l.c. 255-275) studied the variation in New Zealand and distinguished three species among which are two polyploids.
Citation
LANE-POOLE 1925: For. Res.: 77
STEEN. 1934 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Btzg: 220
LAUT. 1929 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 462
HOOGL. 1958 – In: Blumea: 235
BALGOOY 1966 – In: Pac. Pl. Areas: 286
L. MOORE 1967 – In: New Zeal. J. Bot.: 267
F.V.M. 1889 – In: Trans. R. Soc. Victoria: 34
GEERINCK 1974 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg.: 59