1089.000 Ornithogalum L.

Description of the genus

Bulbous, perennial herbs. Leaves rosulate or distichous, 1-many. Inflorescence a terminal, simple raceme, many-few-flowered. Bracts 1 per flower, never decurrent. Perianth segments 6, free or rarely fused at base, in two subequal whorls, the inner slightly longer, spreading at least at anthesis, persistent, white, green or yellow. Stamens 6, in 2 whorls; filaments free. Ovary 3-locular; ovules few to many. Capsule loculicidal. Seeds variously shaped.

Comment: According to latest thinking the genus the genus Ornithogalum has been included in Albuca but until more is known about the species delimitations in Albuca sensu stricto and the results have been published in Flora Zambesiaca we keep the two genera as separate.

Worldwide: c. 200 species in Eurasia and Africa.

Botswana: 4 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
flexuosum (Thunb.) U. Müll. -Doblies & D. Müll. -Doblies		Description, Image
pulchrum Schinz		Image
seineri (Engl. & Krause) Oberm.
tenuifolium F. Delaroche subsp. tenuifolium	N,SE	Description, Image

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