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Asphodelus L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
309-310
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Asphodelus L.
genus
Asphodelus

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Asphodelus

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Asphodelus L.

Perennial or annual herbs; rhizome short, or roots fibrous or tuberous. Leaves all basal, linear, 3-angled or tubular. Scape simple, or branched and bracteate; inflorescence a raceme or panicle. Flowers white or pink, pedicellate, bracteate; segments ± equal, free or ± connate at base, spreading above, 1-nerved. Capsule subglobose, leathery, loculicidal. Seeds triquetrous. Spp. c. 12, from the Mediterranean across S. Asia to India. Adventive sp. 1.

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Asphodelus L.
Asphodelus L.
Asphodelus L.
Asphodelus L.
Asphodelus L.

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Exotic
Cultivated
New Zealand
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Asphodelus acaulis recorded on p. 18.

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65d796cf-4433-4f37-8688-cd1a60ba677a
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1 January 2000
29 July 2011
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