Amphiasma Bremek.

Description of the genus

Perennial herbs or subshrubs, with rather strict rush-like stems, usually glabrous or glabrescent. Leaves sessile, opposite; blades linear or filiform, rather rigid and usually erect or nearly so, acute and hard-pointed, the margins revolute; stipule sheath mostly tubular, truncate or sometimes with 2 small cusps. Flowers 4-merous, in small rather dense terminal and axillary capituliform, umbelliform or cymose inflorescences, sometimes combining to form a more ample inflorescence; bracts connate in pairs. Calyx lobes triangular; corolla mostly white, tube cylindric or somewhat funnel-shaped, throat ± densely hairy, lobes ovate or ovate-oblong, hairy in lower half inside. Stamens included in the tube in long-styled flowers, exserted in isostylous and short-styled flowers; filaments glabrous; anthers dorsifixed. Ovary 2-locular; ovules fairly numerous on peltate slightly stipitate; style glabrous; stigma lobes filiform, densely covered with long papillae. Disk cushion-shaped, farinose. Fruit capsule globose, only slightly beaked, the beak dehiscing loculicidally. Seeds dark brown, dorsiventrally compressed, oblong, smooth.

Worldwide: Species 3-4, in southern Africa.

Malawi: 1 taxon.

Amphiasma luzuloides

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luzuloides (K. Schum.) Bremek.[NrEnd]NDescription, Image

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Flora of Zambia: Amphiasma

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Amphiasma
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IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Amphiasma
JSTOR Plant Science: Amphiasma
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Amphiasma
Plants of the World Online: Amphiasma
Tropicos: Amphiasma
Wikipedia: Amphiasma

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Malawi: Genus page: Amphiasma.
https://www.malawiflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1931, retrieved 29 March 2024

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