Olsynium |
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grass widows, grass-widow, purple-eyed grass |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, strongly cespitose, rootstock indistinct. |
Stems | simple, terete. |
Leaves | 2–4, cauline, alternate, reduced basally; blade basally clasping or terete. |
Inflorescences | rhipidiate, 1–5-flowered; spathes 2, green, leaflike, unequal, apex acute or, rarely, obtuse. |
Flowers | not fragrant, actinomorphic; tepals distinct, reddish purple to magenta, occasionally pink or white, not clawed, ± equal; stamens symmetrically arranged; filaments connate to 1/2 their length; anthers parallel, not appressed to style branches; style branches 3, filiform, short, extending between anthers. |
Capsules | globose to obovoid or broadly turbinate, ± smooth to distended around seeds, apex broadly rounded, basal 0.2 mm of styles sometimes persistent. |
Seeds | many, obconic, angular; seed coat brown, coarsely rugulose. |
x | = 32. |
Olsynium |
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Distribution |
North America; South America |
Discussion | Species 12 (1 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 350. |
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Name authority | Rafinesque: New Fl. 1: 72. (1836) |
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