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Kativu, S. (2002) Alliaceae of the Flora Zambesiaca area Kirkia 18(1) 72-76
Kativu, S. (2008) Alliaceae FZ 13(1)
Rootstock a bulb or rhizome. Plants sometimes smelling strongly of onion. Flowers in umbels, subtended by a spathe. Perianth segments fused into a tube below, 6-lobed and sometimes with a corona at the mouth of the tube (Tulbaghia). Stamens 6. Ovary superior, 3-locular. Fruit a capsule. Seeds flattened, black, shiny. Worldwide: 30 genera and 850 species, cosmopolitan, excluding Australia. |
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