Asphodelus
Tufted, sometimes rhizomatous, annual or perennial herbs. Roots fibrous to tuberous. Leaves basal, linear, angular or terete. Inflorescence a bracteate raceme or racemose panicle; pedicels articulate; flowers bisexual, perianth segments equal, spreading, free or shortly fused at base, 1-nerved; stamens 6, anthers dorsifixed; ovary superior, trilocular, ovules 2 per locule; style filiform, stigma 3-lobed. Fruit a loculicidally dehiscent capsule; seeds triquetrous, black.
About 12 species, from the Mediterranean and Asia Minor to India; 1 naturalised in Australia.
Conran, J.G. (1994). Liliaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons, pp. 637–686. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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