Chlorophytum
Chlorophytum inornatum
Chlorophytum is a genus of the subfamily of Agave ( Agavoideae ). The botanical name of the genus is derived from the Greek words for chloros, yellowish green 'or' pale green 'as well as for phyton, plant ' and refers to the leaves of some taxa.
- 3.1 Literature
- 3.2 Notes and references
Description
Vegetative characteristics
The species of the genus Chlorophytum are perennial, evergreen or deciduous geophytische herbaceous plants. Their different roots are mostly succulent or occasionally bulbous. The creeping rhizome is often covered with old leaf bases. The leaves are arranged in rosettes or tufted. They are rarely reduced to a single sheet or almost two lines. Your bald to hairy leaf blade is flat and oblong to linear. The leaf margin is often fringed.
Inflorescences and flowers
The terminal inflorescence is racemose or paniculate. The peduncle is covered with bracts, divided the flower stem near its center. The white to blue perianth is star-shaped, urn -shaped or bell-shaped rare. The six tepals oblong remain dried up, the midrib darker. The outer tepals are narrower than the inner tepals. There are six stamens present. Their stamens are glabrous or verrucose, the anthers basifix and intrors. The sedentary or short -stalked, triangular ovary contains 6-30 ovules arranged in two rows. The stalk round pen is smooth and the apical scar tiny.
Fruit and seeds
The fruits are three-lobed or triangular lokulizide capsule fruits. They contain flat, rounded, black, shiny seeds.
Systematics and distribution
The genus Chlorophytum is in Africa, widespread in Madagascar and Asia in forests, grasslands and Karoo vegetation.
The first description of the genus Chlorophytum was made in 1807 by John Bellenden Ker Gawler. The type species of the genus Chlorophytum inornatum.
The genus Chlorophytum include the following types:
- Chlorophytum acutum ( C.H.Wright ) Nordal
- Chlorophytum affine Baker Chlorophytum affine var affine
- Chlorophytum affine var curviscapum ( Poelln. ) Hanid
- Chlorophytum blepharophyllum subsp. blepharophyllum
- Chlorophytum blepharophyllum subsp. Hoell & Nordal pendulum
- Chlorophytum blepharophyllum subsp. rubropygmaeum Bjorå & Nordal
- Chlorophytum cameronii var cameronii
- Chlorophytum cameronii var grantii ( Baker) Nordal
- Chlorophytum cameronii var purpuratum ( Rendle ) Govaerts
- Chlorophytum filipendulum subsp. filipendulum
- Chlorophytum filipendulum subsp. amaniense ( Engl ) Nordal & A.D.Poulsen
- Chlorophytum galpinii var galpinii
- Chlorophytum galpinii var matabelense ( Baker) Kativu
- Chlorophytum galpinii var norlindhii ( Weim. ) Kativu
- Chlorophytum lancifolium subsp. lancifolium
- Chlorophytum lancifolium subsp. cordatum ( Engl ) A.D.Poulsen & Nordal
- Chlorophytum lancifolium subsp. togoense ( Engl ) A.D.Poulsen & Nordal
- Chlorophytum pygmaeum subsp. pygmaeum
- Chlorophytum pygmaeum subsp. rhodesianum ( Rendle ) Kativu
- Chlorophytum sparsiflorum var sparsiflorum
- Chlorophytum sparsiflorum var bipindense ( Engl & K.Krause ) Bjorå & Nordal
Synonyms for Chlorophytum Ker Gawl. are Hartwegia Nees (1831 ), Asphodelopsis Steud. ex Baker (1876 ), Acrospira Welw. ex Baker (1878, nom. illeg. ICBN article 53.1 ), Dasystachys Baker (1878, nom. illeg. ICBN article 53.1 ), Debesia ( Welw. ex Baker ) Kuntze (1891 ) and Verdickia De Wild. (1902 ).