Flora of Tropical East Africa - Alliaceae (2003)

Acaulescent or short-stemmed biennial or perennial geophytes. Stem usually swollen toform a bulb or tuberous rhizome, rarely a corm, covered with the dry remains ofsheathing leaf-bases. Leaves linear, filiform, lanceolate or rarely ovate, flat, terete orcylindrical and hollow, bases sheathing, veins parallel. Scape leafless, terete, flat orcylindrical and hollow. Inflorescence an umbel, subtended by (1- )2 ( -several)membranous spathaceous-bracts; bracts enveloping young flower buds; pedicelssometimes further subtended by smaller membranous bracts. Flowers hermaphrodite, actinomorphic. Perianth t BOOK COVER......Page 1 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS......Page 3 FAMILIES OF VASCULAR PLANTS REPRESENTED IN THE FLORA OF TROPICAL EAST AFRICA......Page 4 COPYRIGHT......Page 6 FLORA OF TROPICAL EAST AFRICA: ALLIACEAE......Page 7 INDEX TO ALLIACEAE......Page 16