Gelasine elongata (Graham) Ravena

Echeverría, María L., Alonso, Sara I. & Comparatore, Viviana M., 2017, Survey of the vascular plants of Sierra Chica, the untouched area of the Paititi Natural Reserve (southeastern Tandilia mountain range, Buenos Aires province, Argentina), Check List 13 (6), pp. 1003-1036 : 1016-1017

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15560/13.6.1003

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scientific name

Gelasine elongata (Graham) Ravena
status

 

Gelasine elongata (Graham) Ravena View in CoL

Figure 9

Gelasine elongata (Graham) Ravena (1988) View in CoL : 154— Flora Argentina (2017); Tropicos (2017).

Ferraria elongata Graham (1830) View in CoL : 173.

Gelasine azurea Herbert (1840) View in CoL : 3779 — Cabrera (1968): 543.

Cryptophyte, native with distribution in the Southern Cone Region of South America.

Characteristics. Perennial bulbous herb, to 80 cm tall. Basal leaves linear, ca 25 cm long, 3 cm wide, sword-

shaped, folded, parallel-veined, semi-coreaceus; superior leaves scarce. Inflorescence: a cyme with 1–3 flowers; tepals blue with dark spots at base. Fruit: a capsule.

Comments. This is an infrequent species in the study area. It grows in full sunlight conditions and deep to moderate deep soils on rocky and grassy slopes. Gelasine elongate is the only species of its genus known from Buenos Aires province, and it can be recognized by its folded leaves and blue tepals.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Iridaceae

Genus

Gelasine

Loc

Gelasine elongata (Graham) Ravena

Echeverría, María L., Alonso, Sara I. & Comparatore, Viviana M. 2017
2017
Loc

Gelasine azurea

Cabrera AL 1968: 543
Herbert W 1840: 3779
1840
Loc

Ferraria elongata

Graham R 1830: 173
1830
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