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Tuntematon
Tuntematon

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From @tonyrebelo: "Trachyandra has one flower per bract. Chlorophytum has several flowers per bract."

Full descriptions from Manning, J., "Field Guide to Wildflowers of South Africa", Struik Nature, 2nd ed., 2019: (emphasis retained)

Chlorophytum

Member of Agavaceae (Agave family)

"Rhizomatous, tufted perennials, either with stiff, tapering roots or long, slender roots with tuberous swellings. Leaves narrow and channelled, often fibrous at the base. Flowers in leafy racemes or panicles, usually with more than 1 at each node, on jointed pedicles, star-shaped with seperate tepals, each lasting a day. Fruit usually 3-winged. Widespread in Africa, Eurasia and the Americas, mainly tropical: plusminus 165 spp.; South Africa: 37 spp."

Trachyandra

Member of Asphodelaceae (Aloe family)

"Tufted, rhizomatous or ...lisää ↓

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I have worked through a number of plant observations in eastern South Africa. There are quite a few plants that look like one of these species: white flowers with brown stripes running along the petals and yellow bits in the middle.

This is a project to collect these observations, many of which are stuck at Dicot level, in the hopes that someone can identify them.

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