Drimia secunda
Drimia secunda is a plant of the genus Drimia in the family of asparagus plants ( Asparagaceae ). The specific epithet secunda comes from Latin and means, einseitswendig '.
Description
Drimia secunda grows with loose and open onion, onion flakes form the rosette. They are club- to spindle-shaped, succulent pulled together towards the tip, up to 4 mm long and 2 inches wide. Your linear - filiform leaves are 8 inches long and 1.5 millimeters wide. The blade tip is blunt.
The up to 25 - flowered, einseitswendige inflorescence reaches a length of up to 5 centimeters. The egg-shaped bracts are up to 2 mm long and spurred. The flowers are up to 2 mm long pedicles. The bell-shaped flower sleeve has a length of up to 5 millimeters. Your brown tepals are fused in their lower half together. The stamens are fused at their base, the free parts are thready. The bright yellow anthers are up to 1.6 mm long. The nearly spherical ovary has a length of up to 2.5 millimeters. The flowering season is the spring.
Systematics and distribution
Drimia secunda is common in the southwest of Namibia in the Succulent Karoo.
The first description as Rhadamanthus by Rune Bertil Nordenstam secundus was published in 1970. John Charles Manning and Peter Goldblatt set the style in 2000 into the genus Drimia.