Baeometra
Perennial herbs with tunicate corms. Roots fibrous. Leaves annual, linear with tubular, sheathing base, cauline. Inflorescence a scapose, terminal bracteate raceme sometimes reduced to a solitary flower. Flowers bisexual; perianth segments subequal, free, clawed; stamens 6, attached to perianth near base, filaments filiform, anthers dorsifixed, versatile, dehiscing by lateral slits; ovary superior, 3-locular, ovules numerous; styles 3, filiform. Fruit a septicidal trigonous capsule; seeds numerous, brown.
A monotypic South African genus; naturalised in WA and Victoria.
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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